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title: "wobbly pops for the grown-ups, juice for the kids" — what will the… — Soft words for hard things: drinking a… · tree and pragmatics
description: "wobbly pops for the grown-ups, juice for the kids" — what will the grown-ups drink? Test 11 of lesson 31 «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 11 · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religio…

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"wobbly pops for the grown-ups, juice for the kids" — what will the grown-ups drink?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** grown ups · **What happens:** grow, drink · **To what, where:** wobbly pops

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This is test 11 of lesson 31 «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» 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/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t11:1
# text = "wobbly pops for the grown-ups, juice for the kids" — what will the grown-ups drink?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pops	pop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drink** | future | the grown ups | wobbly pops for the grown ups |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Fizzy water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t11:o1:1
# text = Fizzy water
1	Fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ice lollies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t11:o2:1
# text = Ice lollies
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lollies	lolly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Wobbly jelly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t11:o3:1
# text = Wobbly jelly
1	Wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	jelly	jelly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Alcoholic drinks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate:t11:o4:1
# text = Alcoholic drinks
1	Alcoholic	alcoholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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