Test 13 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily function…
A council leaflet: "Free swimming for senior citizens on Mondays." Who swims free?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: swim
This is test 13 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: A council leaflet: "Free swimming for senior citizens on Mondays."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 leaflet | det |
| 2 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaflet | compound |
| 3 | leaflet | leaflet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 swimming | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 swimming | punct |
| 6 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 swimming | amod |
| 7 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaflet | appos |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 citizens | case |
| 9 | senior | senior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 citizens | amod |
| 10 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 swimming | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Mondays | case |
| 12 | Mondays | Monday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 citizens | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 swimming | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 swimming | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Who swims free?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 swims | nsubj |
| 2 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 swims | xcomp |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 swims | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | present | free property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Teenagers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teenagers | teenager | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Old people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Council workers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 workers | compound |
| 2 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Lifeguards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lifeguards | lifeguard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/t13/