Test 2 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

"ugh someone let one rip in the lift 🤢" — what happened in the lift?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone · What happens: let, happen · To what, where: one rip, lift 🤢, lift · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
2	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 rip	nummod
6	rip	rip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 🤢	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 🤢	det
9	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 🤢	compound
10	🤢	🤢	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 happened	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 happened	nsubj
14	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 lift	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lift	det
17	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 happened	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive	someone	one rip		the lift 🤢			tree rules
2	happen	past				the lift			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in lift=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Someone ripped a poster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 ripped	nsubj
2	ripped	rip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 poster	det
4	poster	poster	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ripped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rip	past	Someone	a poster					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poster=Patient

Option 2

Someone shouted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	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	shout speech: express	past	Someone						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Someone tore their trousers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 tore	nsubj
2	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 trousers	nmod:poss
4	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past	Someone	their trousers					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Someone farted loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 farted	nsubj
2	farted	fart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 farted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fart	past	Someone					loudly property	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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