--- title: A Brit at a party: "Sorry, where's your loo?" What is the guest look… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics description: A Brit at a party: "Sorry, where's your loo?" What is the guest looking for? Test 12 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 each option; Mova's choice --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: the toilet…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/) / t12 # Test 12 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions A Brit at a party: "Sorry, where's your loo?" What is the guest looking for? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Brit, guest · **What happens:** be, look · **To what, where:** loo This is test 12 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/#t12). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A Brit at a party: "Sorry, where's your loo?" ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t12:1 # text = A Brit at a party: "Sorry, where's your loo?" 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Brit brit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Sorry sorry INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 loo loo NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a Brit at a party | your loo | | | | | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* What is the guest looking for? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t12:2 # text = What is the guest looking for? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 guest guest NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 5 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the guest | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | gerund | the guest *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The garden ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t12:o1:1 # text = The garden 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} The toilet ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t12:o2:1 # text = The toilet 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The coats ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t12:o3:1 # text = The coats 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 coats coat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The kitchen ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t12:o4:1 # text = The kitchen 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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