Test 2 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily function…

"where's the head on this boat, I'm desperate" — what is the passenger looking for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: head, passenger · What happens: be, look · To what, where: head, boat, passenger

This is test 2 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 desperate	punct
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 head	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 head	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 head	det
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 desperate	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 boat	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 boat	det
8	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 head	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 desperate	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 desperate	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 desperate	cop
12	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 desperate	punct
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 passenger	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 passenger	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 passenger	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 passenger	det
18	passenger	passenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 desperate	conj
19	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 passenger	acl
20	for	for	ADP	_	19 looking	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 desperate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the head	this boat		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	the head			desperate property	tree rules
3	is a	present		the passenger			tree rules
4	look	gerund	the passenger not said here				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

The captain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 captain	det
2	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The bow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bow	det
2	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ 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 4

The life jackets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jackets	det
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jackets	compound
3	jackets	jacket	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.

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