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Test 6 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

Gran, in an old story: "Stop the car, I need to spend a penny." What does Gran want?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, Gran · What happens: stop, need, spend, want · To what, where: car, penny

This is test 6 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: Gran, in an old story: "Stop the car, I need to spend a penny."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 story	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 story	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 story	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	amod
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Stop	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Stop	punct
9	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 story	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 car	det
11	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Stop	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 need	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 need	nsubj
14	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Stop	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 spend	mark
16	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 need	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 penny	det
18	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spend	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 story	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 story	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop in a quote	infinitive		the car					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality car=Eventuality
2	need in a quote	present	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	spend not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	a penny					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Asset

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 does Gran want?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 want	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	Gran						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1

To give money to a beggar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 beggar	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 beggar	det
6	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive		money	a beggar				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to beggar=Recipient

Option 2

To buy something at a shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 buy	mark
2	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 buy	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 shop	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shop	det
6	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	to-infinitive		something		a shop			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent something=Theme at shop=Asset

Option 3

To pay for petrol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pay	mark
2	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 petrol	case
4	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	to-infinitive						for petrol	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for petrol=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To use a toilet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 use	mark
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 toilet	det
4	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	to-infinitive		a toilet					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toilet=Patient

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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