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Test 5 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

Mate: "big night, he chundered all over the footpath." What did he do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, he · What happens: chunder, do · To what, where: footpath

This is test 5 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: Mate: "big night, he chundered all over the footpath."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chundered	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	amod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chundered	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 chundered	nsubj
8	chundered	chunder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 footpath	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 footpath	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 footpath	det
12	footpath	footpath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chundered	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 footpath	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 footpath	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chunder in a quote	past	Mate and big night	the footpath					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 did he 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He shouted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	He						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He tripped on a crack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tripped	nsubj
2	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 crack	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 crack	det
5	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	past	He			a crack			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on crack=Trajectory

Option 3

He fell over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall over	past	He					over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He vomited

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 vomited	nsubj
2	vomited	vomit	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	vomit	past	He						vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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