Test 12 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily function…
In a novel: "The old lady excused herself to the smallest room." Where did she go?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old lady, lady · What happens: excuse, go · To what, where: lady, novel
This is test 12 of lesson 8 «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks» 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: In a novel: "The old lady excused herself to the smallest room."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 novel | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 novel | det |
| 3 | novel | novel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 excused | obl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 novel | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 excused | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lady | amod |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 excused | nsubj |
| 9 | excused | excuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 excused | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 13 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 room | amod |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 excused | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 excused | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 excused | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excuse in a quote | past | the old lady | lady | a novel | to the smallest room | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=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: Where did she go?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · do-support | lady | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The toilet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 toilet | det |
| 2 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The pantry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pantry | det |
| 2 | pantry | pantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A child's bedroom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bedroom | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 child | case |
| 4 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The garden shed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shed | det |
| 2 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shed | compound |
| 3 | shed | shed | 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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