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Test 6 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

A note to the teacher: "Sam may be irregular this week due to his new medicine." What does it mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sam, medicine · What happens: be, medicine, mean

This is test 6 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 note to the teacher: "Sam may be irregular this week due to his new medicine."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 note	det
2	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 teacher	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teacher	det
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 note	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 irregular	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Sam	punct
8	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 irregular	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 irregular	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 irregular	cop
11	irregular	irregular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 note	appos
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 week	det
13	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 irregular	obl:unmarked
14	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	18 medicine	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 due	fixed
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 medicine	nmod:poss
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 medicine	amod
18	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 irregular	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 irregular	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 irregular	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	may	Sam				week	due Sam's new medicine; irregular property	tree rules
2	medicine in a quote		Sam						nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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 does it mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	medicine						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sam may come to school late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 school	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
6	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	may	Sam			school		late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sam may be constipated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 constipated	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 constipated	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 constipated	aux:pass
4	constipated	constipate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	constipate	may · passive		Sam					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Sam may behave strangely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 behave	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 behave	aux
3	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	3 behave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behave	may	Sam					strangely property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Sam may miss some lessons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 miss	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 miss	aux
3	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 lessons	det
5	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 miss	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	may	Sam	some lessons					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lesson=Stimulus

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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