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title: A hotel email says "Feel free to freshen up in the lobby facilities… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics
description: A hotel email says "Feel free to freshen up in the lobby facilities before check-in." What is offered? Test 11 of lesson 6 «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 11 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

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A hotel email says "Feel free to freshen up in the lobby facilities before check-in." What is offered?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hotel email · **What happens:** say, feel, freshen up, offer · **To what, where:** lobby facilities · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 of lesson 6 «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions» 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/6-toilet-words/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A hotel email says "Feel free to freshen up in the lobby facilities before check-in."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t11:1
# text = A hotel email says "Feel free to freshen up in the lobby facilities before check-in."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hotel	hotel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	email	email	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
7	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	freshen	freshen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	lobby	lobby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	facilities	facility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	in	in	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a hotel email |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **feel** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **freshen up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the lobby facilities | before check in |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:* What is offered?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t11:2
# text = What is offered?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Free fruit juice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t11:o1:1
# text = Free fruit juice
1	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	juice	juice	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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A place to leave bags

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t11:o2:1
# text = A place to leave bags
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  | bags |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A swimming pool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t11:o3:1
# text = A swimming pool
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Toilets to use and wash in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t11:o4:1
# text = Toilets to use and wash in
1	Toilets	toilet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wash** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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