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title: Chatty: "ugh got a tummy bug, been up all night, not coming in" Why… — Soft words for hard things: illness, d… · tree and pragmatics
description: Chatty: "ugh got a tummy bug, been up all night, not coming in" Why is the speaker staying home? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 5 «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body

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Chatty: "ugh got a tummy bug, been up all night, not coming in" Why is the speaker staying home?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ugh, speaker · **What happens:** get, be, not come in, stay · **To what, where:** tummy bug, night

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 5 «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» 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/5-drink-mind-and-body/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t2:1
# text = Chatty: "ugh got a tummy bug, been up all night, not coming in" Why is the speaker staying home?
1	Chatty	chatty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ugh	ugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bug	bug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
19	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
24	home	home	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past | ugh | a tummy bug |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bug=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | participle |  | all night |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **come in** *in a quote* | gerund | ugh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | present · progressive | the speaker |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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They have a stomach infection

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t2:o1:1
# text = They have a stomach infection
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	infection	infection	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 | They | a stomach infection |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They ate too much dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t2:o2:1
# text = They ate too much dinner
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They have homework

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t2:o3:1
# text = They have homework
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	homework	homework	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 | They | homework |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A bug bit them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:5-drink-mind-and-body:t2:o4:1
# text = A bug bit them
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bug	bug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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

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