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title: Grandpa pats his belly: "Bit of extra padding for winter, eh!" What… — Soft words for hard things: weight and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandpa pats his belly: "Bit of extra padding for winter, eh!" What is he joking about? Test 5 of lesson 10 «Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 5 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth

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Grandpa pats his belly: "Bit of extra padding for winter, eh!" What is he joking about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Grandpa · **What happens:** pat, joke · **To what, where:** belly

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This is test 5 of lesson 10 «Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Grandpa pats his belly: "Bit of extra padding for winter, eh!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t5:1
# text = Grandpa pats his belly: "Bit of extra padding for winter, eh!"
1	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pats	pat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	padding	padding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pat** | present | Grandpa | Grandpa's belly |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is he joking about?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t5:2
# text = What is he joking about?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | present · progressive | Grandpa |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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His winter coat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t5:o1:1
# text = His winter coat
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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His fat belly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t5:o2:1
# text = His fat belly
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A heater

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t5:o3:1
# text = A heater
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heater	heater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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His pillow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:10-weight-and-babies:t5:o4:1
# text = His pillow
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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