Test 5 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily function…
An old cottage advert: "Charming garden with original privy." What is in the garden?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: garden
This is test 5 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: An old cottage advert: "Charming garden with original privy."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 advert | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 advert | amod |
| 3 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advert | compound |
| 4 | advert | advert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 garden | nsubj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 garden | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 garden | punct |
| 7 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 garden | compound |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 privy | case |
| 10 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 privy | amod |
| 11 | privy | privy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 garden | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 garden | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 garden | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What is in the garden?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 garden | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 garden | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 garden | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 garden | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the garden | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
An old outdoor toilet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 toilet | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 toilet | amod |
| 3 | outdoor | outdoor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 toilet | amod |
| 4 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A private pond
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pond | det |
| 2 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pond | amod |
| 3 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A hidden treasure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 treasure | det |
| 2 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 treasure | amod |
| 3 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A secret path
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 path | det |
| 2 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 path | amod |
| 3 | path | path | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/t5/