Test 2 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions
Jake texts "brb gotta answer the call of nature lol". What is Jake doing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake texts, Jake · What happens: answer, call, do · To what, where: call, nature · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 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: Jake texts "brb gotta answer the call of nature lol".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 texts | compound |
| 2 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 answer | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answer | punct |
| 4 | brb | brb | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 answer | nsubj |
| 5 | gotta | gotta | PART | _ | 6 answer | mark |
| 6 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 call | det |
| 8 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answer | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 nature | case |
| 10 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | nmod |
| 11 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 6 answer | discourse |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 lol | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Jake texts | the call of nature | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | nature | nom call «communication transitive»: of=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 Jake doing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 doing | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 doing | aux |
| 3 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 doing | nsubj |
| 4 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 doing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · progressive | Jake | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Going camping
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | camping | camping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Going | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | camping | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location camping=Theme |
Option 2
Calling his mum back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Calling | obj |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Calling | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call back speech: assert | gerund | his mum | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Going to the toilet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 toilet | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 toilet | det |
| 4 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Going | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | the toilet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial_Location |
Option 4
Watching a nature show
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 show | det |
| 3 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 show | compound |
| 4 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watching | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | a nature show | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Theme |
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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