Test 3 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions
At the wedding, Auntie May says "I'll just go and powder my nose, darling." Where is Auntie May going?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Auntie · What happens: say, go, powder, be · To what, where: wedding, nose · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 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: At the wedding, Auntie May says "I'll just go and powder my nose, darling."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 wedding | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wedding | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wedding | punct |
| 5 | Auntie | Auntie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 6 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Auntie | flat |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 powder | cc |
| 14 | powder | powder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 nose | nmod:poss |
| 16 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 powder | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 darling | punct |
| 18 | darling | darling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nose | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Auntie | the wedding | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | Auntie | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | powder in a quote | infinitive | Auntie not said here | my nose and darling | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=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: Where is Auntie May going?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 going | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | Auntie | Auntie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 going | nsubj |
| 4 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Auntie | flat |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | where property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | Auntie | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Outside for fresh air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Outside | outside | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 air | case |
| 3 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 air | amod |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Outside | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
To the toilet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 toilet | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 toilet | det |
| 3 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
To the make-up artist
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 6 artist | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 artist | det |
| 3 | make | make | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 artist | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 up | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 make | compound |
| 6 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
To the dance floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 floor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 floor | det |
| 3 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floor | compound |
| 4 | floor | floor | 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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