Test 4 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

"oi where's the dunny mate, I'm bustin" — what does this Australian need?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: oi, bustin · What happens: be, do · To what, where: dunny mate, bustin, Australian need

This is test 4 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 oi	punct
2	oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bustin	nsubj
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 mate	advmod
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mate	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mate	det
6	dunny	dunny	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mate	compound
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 oi	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 oi	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 bustin	nsubj
10	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bustin	cop
11	bustin	bustin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 bustin	punct
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 does	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 does	nsubj
15	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bustin	acl:relcl
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 need	det
17	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 need	amod
18	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 does	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 bustin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the dunny mate	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	oi	bustin	tree rules
3	do	present	bustin	this Australian need	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Eventuality

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ 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 2

A bus stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A bandage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A cold drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drink	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drink	amod
3	drink	drink	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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