Test 13 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions
A care-home list: "Order more protective underwear for Room 12." What is needed?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: order, need · To what, where: protective underwear
This is test 13 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 care-home list: "Order more protective underwear for Room 12."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 list | det |
| 2 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 home | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 care | punct |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 list | compound |
| 5 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Order | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Order | punct |
| 8 | Order | order | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 list | parataxis |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 protective | advmod |
| 10 | protective | protective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 underwear | amod |
| 11 | underwear | underwear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Order | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Room | case |
| 13 | Room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 underwear | nmod |
| 14 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 Room | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Order | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Order | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order in a quote | infinitive | protective underwear | for Room | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent underwear=Theme for room=Beneficiary |
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 is needed?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 needed | aux:pass |
| 3 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 needed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present · passive | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Safety helmets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 helmets | compound |
| 2 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Warm pyjamas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pyjamas | amod |
| 2 | pyjamas | pyjama | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Adult nappies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 nappies | amod |
| 2 | nappies | nappy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Socks that do not slip
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Socks | sock | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 slip | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 slip | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 slip | advmod |
| 5 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Socks | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not slip | present · do-support | Socks | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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