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Test 8 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

Grandma whispers "Poor Grandpa had a little accident on the way home." Was there a crash?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandma, Poor Grandpa · What happens: whisper, have, be · To what, where: little accident, way, crash · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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: Grandma whispers "Poor Grandpa had a little accident on the way home."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whispers	nsubj
2	whispers	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
4	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Grandpa	amod
5	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whispers	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 accident	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 accident	amod
9	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 way	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 whispers	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 whispers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	present	Grandma						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	past	Poor Grandpa	a little accident		the way			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accident=Patient

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: Was there a crash?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crash	cop
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	1 Was	expl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crash	det
4	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 crash	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he fell off his bike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 fell	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bike	nmod:poss
7	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	he	his bike					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, he wet himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wet	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wet	nsubj
4	wet	wet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 wet	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wet	past	he	himself = he					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient

Option 3

No, he got lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux:pass
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		he					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

Yes, a small car crash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 crash	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crash	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crash	amod
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crash	compound
6	crash	crash	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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