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description: "Mum's feeling a bit delicate this morning, keep it down." Why should the kids be quiet? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 30 «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs

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"Mum's feeling a bit delicate this morning, keep it down." Why should the kids be quiet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum, kids · **What happens:** feel, keep down, be · **To what, where:** bit

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 30 «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs» 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/30-drinking-and-drugs/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "Mum's feeling a bit delicate this morning, keep it down."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t1:1
# text = "Mum's feeling a bit delicate this morning, keep it down."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Mum |  |  |  | morning |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **keep down** *in a quote* | infinitive | Mum *not said here* | bit |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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:* Why should the kids be quiet?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t1:2
# text = Why should the kids be quiet?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | should | the kids |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Mum has a cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t1:o1:1
# text = Mum has a cold
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Mum | a cold |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Mum is sewing lace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t1:o2:1
# text = Mum is sewing lace
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | present · progressive | Mum | lace |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lace=Product |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Mum is reading

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t1:o3:1
# text = Mum is reading
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present · progressive | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Mum is hungover

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t1:o4:1
# text = Mum is hungover
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	hungover	hungover	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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