Test 3 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions
The coach yells "stop moanin, you're not sweatin, you're just glowin!" What is the coach joking about?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: coach, you · What happens: yell, stop, not be, be, joke · To what, where: moanin, sweatin, glowin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 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: The coach yells "stop moanin, you're not sweatin, you're just glowin!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 coach | det |
| 2 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 yells | nsubj |
| 3 | yells | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 yells | ccomp |
| 6 | moanin | moanin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stop | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sweatin | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 sweatin | nsubj |
| 9 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sweatin | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 sweatin | advmod |
| 11 | sweatin | sweatin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 yells | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glowin | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 glowin | nsubj |
| 14 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 glowin | cop |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 glowin | advmod |
| 16 | glowin | glowin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 yells | parataxis |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 glowin | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 glowin | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yell speech: express | present | the coach | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stop in a quote | infinitive | moanin | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality moanin=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | you | sweatin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | you | glowin | tree rules |
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 the coach joking about?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 coach | det |
| 4 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 coach | acl |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 joking | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the coach | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | joke speech: other | gerund | the coach not said here | about property | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Their bright T-shirts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shirts | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shirts | amod |
| 3 | T | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shirts | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 T | punct |
| 5 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Sunburn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunburn | sunburn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Their red faces from shame
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 faces | nmod:poss |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 faces | amod |
| 3 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 shame | case |
| 5 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 faces | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Their sweat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sweat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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