Test 8 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions
Little Ava on a car trip: "Mummy, is it a number one or a number two?" — "Just a one, sweetie." What does Ava need?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Little Ava, Ava · What happens: be, need · To what, where: number
This is test 8 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: Little Ava on a car trip: "Mummy, is it a number one or a number two?" — "Just a one, sweetie."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Ava | amod |
| 2 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 number | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 trip | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 trip | det |
| 5 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trip | compound |
| 6 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ava | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mummy | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mummy | punct |
| 9 | Mummy | mummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trip | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ava | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 number | cop |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 number | nsubj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 number | det |
| 14 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 number | flat |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 number | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 number | det |
| 18 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 number | conj |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 number | nummod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 number | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 number | punct |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| 24 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 26 one | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 one | det |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 number | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sweetie | punct |
| 28 | sweetie | sweetie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 one | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Little Ava on a car trip and Mummy | a number or a number | tree rules |
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 Ava need?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 need | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | aux |
| 3 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 need | nsubj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present · do-support | Ava | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A poo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 poo | det |
| 2 | poo | poo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
To be sick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 sick | mark |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sick | cop |
| 3 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | sick property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A wee
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wee | det |
| 2 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A snack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 snack | det |
| 2 | snack | snack | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/t8/