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Test 4 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

A report from summer camp: "Two campers had the runs after the barbecue." What was wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two campers · What happens: have, run, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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 report from summer camp: "Two campers had the runs after the barbecue."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 report	det
2	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 camp	case
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 camp	compound
5	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 report	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 campers	nummod
9	campers	camper	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 report	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 runs	det
12	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 had	ccomp
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 barbecue	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 barbecue	det
15	barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 runs	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 report	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 report	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	Two campers						tree rules
2	run in a quote	present	Two campers not said here				after the barbecue		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 was wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	They					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They were late for dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 late	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 late	cop
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 dinner	case
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 late	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					for dinner; late property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They had diarrhoea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	diarrhoea	diarrhoea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	diarrhoea					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diarrhoea=Patient

Option 4

They ran a race

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 race	det
4	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	They	a race					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory

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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