Exam question 3 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

Select the response consistent with the established meaning of the colloquial Australian expression "technicolour yawn".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish, mean · To what, where: response, colloquial Australian expression

This is exam question 3 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 meaning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meaning	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 meaning	amod
8	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 expression	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 expression	det
11	colloquial	colloquial	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 expression	compound
12	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 expression	amod
13	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meaning	nmod
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 yawn	punct
15	technicolour	technicolour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 yawn	compound
16	yawn	yawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 expression	appos
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 yawn	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	mean			the colloquial Australian expression		nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A television broadcast in colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 television	det
2	television	television	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	broadcast	broadcast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 television	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 colour	case
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broadcast	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	broadcast speech: other	participle		a television not said here		colour			vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A prolonged yawn caused by fatigue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 yawn	det
2	prolonged	prolong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 yawn	amod
3	yawn	yawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 yawn	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 fatigue	case
6	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prolong	participle							vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
2	cause	participle		a prolonged yawn not said here				by fatigue	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

An act of vomiting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 act	det
2	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 vomiting	case
4	vomiting	vomiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 act	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act		vomiting						nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

A painting of vivid hue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 painting	det
2	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hue	case
4	vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hue	amod
5	hue	hue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 painting	nmod

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.

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