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Test 3 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily function…

A medical leaflet: "Fibre helps regular bowel movements." What does fibre help?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: medical leaflet · What happens: help · To what, where: regular bowel movements

This is test 3 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 medical leaflet: "Fibre helps regular bowel movements."

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	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 leaflet	amod
3	leaflet	leaflet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 helps	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 helps	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 helps	punct
6	Fibre	fibre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 helps	nsubj
7	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 movements	amod
9	bowel	bowel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 movements	compound
10	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 helps	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 helps	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help in a quote	present	a medical leaflet	regular bowel movements					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Beneficiary

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: What does fibre help?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 help	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	fibre	fibre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 help	compound
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present · do-support							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Breathing better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Breathing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	gerund						good property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Sleeping well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Sleeping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund						well property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Moving your legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 legs	nmod:poss
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Moving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund		your legs					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leg=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Pooing regularly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pooing	poo	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	regularly	regularly	ADV	_	1 Pooing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poo	gerund						regularly property	tree rules

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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