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title: Jake texts "brb gotta answer the call of nature lol". What is Jake d… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jake texts "brb gotta answer the call of nature lol". What is Jake doing? Test 2 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 was 
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# Test 2 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

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Jake texts "brb gotta answer the call of nature lol". What is Jake doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jake texts, Jake · **What happens:** answer, call, do · **To what, where:** call, nature · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jake texts "brb gotta answer the call of nature lol".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t2:1
# text = Jake texts "brb gotta answer the call of nature lol".
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	brb	brb	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	nsubj	_	_
5	gotta	gotta	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	answer	answer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Jake texts | the call of nature |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality |
| 2 | **call** *in a quote* |  |  | nature |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: of=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 Jake doing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t2:2
# text = What is Jake doing?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · progressive | Jake |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Going camping

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t2:o1:1
# text = Going camping
1	Going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	camping	camping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund |  | camping |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location camping=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Calling his mum back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t2:o2:1
# text = Calling his mum back
1	Calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call back** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | his mum |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Going to the toilet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t2:o3:1
# text = Going to the toilet
1	Going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | the toilet |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Watching a nature show

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t2:o4:1
# text = Watching a nature show
1	Watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund |  | a nature show |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Theme |

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