Test 10 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions
A shop sign says "Feminine hygiene products – aisle 4." What will you find in aisle 4?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: shop sign, you · What happens: say, find · To what, where: Feminine hygiene products, aisle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 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: A shop sign says "Feminine hygiene products – aisle 4."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sign | det |
| 2 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sign | compound |
| 3 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 products | punct |
| 6 | Feminine | feminine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 products | amod |
| 7 | hygiene | hygiene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 products | compound |
| 8 | products | product | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 says | obj |
| 9 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 aisle | punct |
| 10 | aisle | aisle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 products | conj |
| 11 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 aisle | flat |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 products | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 products | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a shop sign | Feminine hygiene products and aisle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent product=Topic |
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 will you find in aisle 4?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 find | obj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 aisle | case |
| 6 | aisle | aisle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obl |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 aisle | flat |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | you | aisle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Pads and tampons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pads | pad | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 tampons | cc |
| 3 | tampons | tampon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pads | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Women's clothes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Women | case |
| 3 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Cleaning sprays for kitchens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cleaning | clean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | sprays | spray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cleaning | obj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 kitchens | case |
| 4 | kitchens | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cleaning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clean | gerund | sprays | for kitchens | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent spray=Patient for kitchen=Beneficiary |
Option 4
Make-up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 up | punct |
| 3 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | up | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset up=Product |
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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