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Exam question 2 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

It is reported that a pupil "was sick in the corridor" in British usage. Ascertain what occurred.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pupil, you · What happens: report, be, ascertain, occur · To what, where: It, corridor

This is exam question 2 of lesson 7 «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is reported that a pupil "was sick in the corridor" in British usage.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reported	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reported	aux:pass
3	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 sick	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pupil	det
6	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sick	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 pupil	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sick	cop
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reported	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 corridor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 corridor	det
12	corridor	corridor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sick	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 corridor	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 usage	case
15	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 usage	amod
16	usage	usage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 corridor	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reported	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	report	present · passive		It					vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is in a quote	past	a pupil			the corridor in British usage		sick property	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: Ascertain what occurred.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 occurred	nsubj
3	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	ccomp
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here						vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	occur	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The pupil was absent through illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 absent	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 absent	cop
4	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 illness	case
6	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 absent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the pupil			illness		absent property	tree rules

Option 2

The pupil felt unwell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unwell	unwell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the pupil					unwell property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The pupil vomited

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vomited	nsubj
3	vomited	vomit	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	vomit	past	the pupil						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The pupil was found to have a fever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux:pass
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 found	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fever	det
8	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		the pupil					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	have	to-infinitive	the pupil not said here	a fever					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=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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