Test 12 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions
A Brit at a party: "Sorry, where's your loo?" What is the guest looking for?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brit, guest · What happens: be, look · To what, where: loo
This is test 12 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 Brit at a party: "Sorry, where's your loo?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Brit | det |
| 2 | Brit | brit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loo | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 party | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 party | det |
| 5 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Brit | nmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sorry | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sorry | punct |
| 8 | Sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 13 loo | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 loo | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 loo | advmod |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 loo | cop |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 loo | nmod:poss |
| 13 | loo | loo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 loo | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 loo | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a Brit at a party | your loo | tree rules |
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 the guest looking for?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 guest | det |
| 4 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 guest | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 looking | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the guest | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | the guest not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 garden | det |
| 2 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The toilet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 toilet | det |
| 2 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The coats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 coats | det |
| 2 | coats | coat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The kitchen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kitchen | det |
| 2 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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