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Test 5 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

A teacher's note home: "Toby needs to ask before going to the bathroom." What is Toby asking for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toby, teacher · What happens: need, ask, go, note, be · To what, where: bathroom, Toby

This is test 5 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 teacher's note home: "Toby needs to ask before going to the bathroom."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 note	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 teacher	case
4	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 note	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 needs	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 needs	punct
8	Toby	Toby	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 needs	nsubj
9	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 note	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 ask	mark
11	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 needs	xcomp
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 going	mark
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 ask	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 bathroom	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bathroom	det
16	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 going	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 note	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 note	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need in a quote	present	Toby						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Toby not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go in a quote	gerund	Toby not said here			the bathroom			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bathroom=Initial_Location
4	note		a teacher						nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 Toby asking for?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 Toby	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Toby	cop
3	Toby	Toby	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 Toby	acl
5	for	for	ADP	_	4 asking	case
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 Toby	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Toby					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	Toby not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Permission to take a bath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 take	mark
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Permission	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bath	det
5	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	to-infinitive		a bath					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Theme

Option 2

Permission to wash paint off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 wash	mark
3	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Permission	acl
4	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wash	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	3 wash	compound:prt

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Permission to go to the toilet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 go	mark
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Permission	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 toilet	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 toilet	det
6	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	to-infinitive				the toilet			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial_Location

Option 4

Permission to see the nurse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 see	mark
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Permission	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nurse	det
5	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		the nurse					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nurse=Stimulus

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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