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Test 12 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

"Mum, Lily tooted at the table! Gross!" What did Lily do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, Lily · What happens: toot, do · To what, where: table

This is test 12 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: "Mum, Lily tooted at the table!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Mum	punct
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tooted	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mum	punct
4	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tooted	nsubj
5	tooted	toot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 table	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 table	det
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tooted	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 tooted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toot in a quote	past	Mum			the table			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=Location

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: Gross!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Gross	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Gross	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: What did Lily do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Lily						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She sang loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 sang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	She					loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 2

She blew a whistle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 whistle	det
4	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	She	a whistle					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient

Option 3

She burped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burped	nsubj
2	burped	burp	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	burp	past	She						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She farted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	She						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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