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Test 9 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

Someone giggles in class and says "Who broke wind?!" What happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Someone · What happens: giggle, say, break, happen · To what, where: wind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: Someone giggles in class and says "Who broke wind?!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 giggles	nsubj
2	giggles	giggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 class	case
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 giggles	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 says	cc
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 giggles	conj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 broke	punct
8	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 broke	nsubj
9	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 broke	obj
11	?!	?!	PUNCT	_	9 broke	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 broke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	giggle	present	Someone					in class	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in class=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	Someone not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	break in a quote	past		wind					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wind=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: What happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Somebody broke a window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 window	det
4	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	Somebody	a window					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Patient

Option 2

Somebody broke a kite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kite	det
4	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	Somebody	a kite					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kite=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Somebody farted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 farted	nsubj
2	farted	fart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fart	past	Somebody						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A storm blew the door open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 storm	det
2	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	obj
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blew	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	a storm	the door				open property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent door=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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