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title: Gran's "feeling delicate" after the wedding, Grandad's "a bit peckis… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Gran's "feeling delicate" after the wedding, Grandad's "a bit peckish", Uncle Ray's "worse for wear". Who drank too much? Test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★

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Gran's "feeling delicate" after the wedding, Grandad's "a bit peckish", Uncle Ray's "worse for wear". Who drank too much?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** feel, drink · **To what, where:** much

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This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» 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/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Gran's "feeling delicate" after the wedding, Grandad's "a bit peckish", Uncle Ray's "worse for wear".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:41-olympiad-euphemism-detective:t9:1
# text = Gran's "feeling delicate" after the wedding, Grandad's "a bit peckish", Uncle Ray's "worse for wear".
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	peckish	peckish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Ray	Ray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	wear	wear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	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* | gerund |  |  |  |  | after the wedding and Grandad | delicate *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:* Who drank too much?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:41-olympiad-euphemism-detective:t9:2
# text = Who drank too much?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past |  | much |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |

## The options {#options}

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

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Gran and Uncle Ray

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:41-olympiad-euphemism-detective:t9:o1:1
# text = Gran and Uncle Ray
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Ray	Ray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only Grandad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:41-olympiad-euphemism-detective:t9:o2:1
# text = Only Grandad
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	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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Only Uncle Ray

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:41-olympiad-euphemism-detective:t9:o3:1
# text = Only Uncle Ray
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ray	Ray	PROPN	NNP	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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All three of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:41-olympiad-euphemism-detective:t9:o4:1
# text = All three of them
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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