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Test 11 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

A hotel email says "Feel free to freshen up in the lobby facilities before check-in." What is offered?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hotel email · What happens: say, feel, freshen up, offer · To what, where: lobby facilities · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 6 «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: A hotel email says "Feel free to freshen up in the lobby facilities before check-in."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 email	det
2	hotel	hotel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 email	compound
3	email	email	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Feel	punct
6	Feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Feel	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 freshen	mark
9	freshen	freshen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 free	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 freshen	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 facilities	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 facilities	det
13	lobby	lobby	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 facilities	compound
14	facilities	facility	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 freshen	obl
15	before	before	ADP	_	18 in	case
16	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 in	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 in	punct
18	in	in	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 freshen	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Feel	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a hotel email						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	feel in a quote	infinitive						free property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	freshen up in a quote	to-infinitive				the lobby facilities	before check in		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What is offered?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 offered	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 offered	aux:pass
3	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 offered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	present · passive							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Free fruit juice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 juice	amod
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 juice	compound
3	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A place to leave bags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 place	det
2	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 leave	mark
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 place	acl
5	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	to-infinitive		bags					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme

Option 3

A swimming pool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pool	det
2	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pool	compound
3	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Toilets to use and wash in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toilets	toilet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 use	mark
3	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Toilets	acl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wash	cc
5	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 use	conj
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 wash	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wash	infinitive							vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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