Test 9 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

"omg I'm gonna throw up, this ride's mental" — how does the rider feel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, rider · What happens: throw up, feel

This is test 9 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 throw	punct
2	omg	omg	INTJ	_	6 throw	discourse
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 throw	nsubj
4	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 throw	aux
5	gonna	gonna	PART	_	6 throw	mark
6	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 throw	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mental	punct
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 ride	det
10	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mental	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 ride	case
12	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 throw	parataxis
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 mental	punct
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 feel	punct
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 feel	advmod
16	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 feel	aux
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rider	det
18	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 feel	nsubj
19	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 throw	advcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 throw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw up in a quote	present	I						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	present · do-support	the rider						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Like throwing a ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	SCONJ	_	2 throwing	mark
2	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ball	det
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 throwing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	gerund		a ball					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme

Option 2

Like shouting for joy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	SCONJ	_	2 shouting	mark
2	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 joy	case
4	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund						for joy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Like vomiting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	2 vomiting	case
2	vomiting	vomiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Like jumping off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	SCONJ	_	2 jumping	mark
2	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 jumping	compound:prt

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

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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