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title: Gossip: "The boss came back from a liquid lunch and fell asleep at h… — Soft words for hard things: drinking a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gossip: "The boss came back from a liquid lunch and fell asleep at his desk." What did the boss have? Test 7 · ★ 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
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# Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs

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Gossip: "The boss came back from a liquid lunch and fell asleep at his desk." What did the boss have?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Gossip, boss · **What happens:** come back, fall, have · **To what, where:** liquid lunch, desk

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Gossip: "The boss came back from a liquid lunch and fell asleep at his desk."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t7:1
# text = Gossip: "The boss came back from a liquid lunch and fell asleep at his desk."
1	Gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	desk	desk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** *in a quote* | past | Gossip |  |  | a liquid lunch |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from lunch=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | Gossip *not said here* |  |  | boss's desk |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at desk=Location |

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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 did the boss have?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t7:2
# text = What did the boss have?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · do-support | the boss |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Alcohol at lunch instead of food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t7:o1:1
# text = Alcohol at lunch instead of food
1	Alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Soup at lunch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t7:o2:1
# text = Soup at lunch
1	Soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A glass of milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t7:o3:1
# text = A glass of milk
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A long swim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t7:o4:1
# text = A long swim
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	swim	swim	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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