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Test 1 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

Holiday postcard: "Great trip, but Dad got Delhi belly on day two." What happened to Dad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad · What happens: get, happen · To what, where: Delhi belly, Dad

This is test 1 of lesson 7 «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: Holiday postcard: "Great trip, but Dad got Delhi belly on day two."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 postcard	compound
2	postcard	postcard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 trip	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 trip	punct
5	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trip	amod
6	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 postcard	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
9	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trip	acl:relcl
11	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 belly	compound
12	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 day	case
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obl
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 day	flat
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 postcard	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 postcard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past	Dad	Delhi belly			day		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer belly=Stimulus

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 to Dad?

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	to	to	ADP	_	4 Dad	case
4	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He got sunburnt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sunburnt	sunburnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He					sunburnt property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He got diarrhoea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	diarrhoea	diarrhoea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	diarrhoea					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer diarrhoea=Stimulus

Option 3

He lost his luggage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 luggage	nmod:poss
4	luggage	luggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	his luggage					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luggage=Eventuality

Option 4

He ate too much curry and got fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 curry	amod
5	curry	curry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
8	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He	much curry					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curry=Patient
2	get	past	He not said here	fat					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fat=Stimulus

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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