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Test 4 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily function…

Brother: "stop the car, I gotta take a leak!" Mum: "Five more minutes." What does he need?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brother, I · What happens: stop, take, need · To what, where: car, leak

This is test 4 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: Brother: "stop the car, I gotta take a leak!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 car	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 take	nsubj
9	gotta	gotta	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stop	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 leak	det
12	leak	leak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop in a quote	infinitive	Brother	the car					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector car=Eventuality
2	take in a quote	infinitive	I	a leak					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leak=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: Mum: "Five more minutes."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 minutes	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 minutes	punct
4	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 minutes	amod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mum	appos
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 minutes	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 minutes	punct

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

Sentence 3: What does he need?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 need	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · do-support	Brother						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To be sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 sick	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 sick	cop
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						sick property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To urinate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 urinate	mark
2	urinate	urinate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 3

To check a flat tyre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tyre	det
4	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tyre	amod
5	tyre	tyre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive		a flat tyre					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tyre=Theme

Option 4

To fix a leaking bottle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fix	mark
2	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bottle	det
4	leaking	leaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bottle	compound
5	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	to-infinitive		a leaking bottle					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient

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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