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title: "oi where's the dunny mate, I'm bustin" — what does this Australian… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics
description: "oi where's the dunny mate, I'm bustin" — what does this Australian need? Test 4 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 4 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

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"oi where's the dunny mate, I'm bustin" — what does this Australian need?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** oi, bustin · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** dunny mate, bustin, Australian need

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This is test 4 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t4:1
# text = "oi where's the dunny mate, I'm bustin" — what does this Australian need?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	oi	oi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dunny	dunny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	bustin	bustin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
15	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the dunny mate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | oi | bustin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present | bustin | this Australian need |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Eventuality |

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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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The toilet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t4:o1:1
# text = The toilet
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	toilet	toilet	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 bus stop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t4:o2:1
# text = A bus stop
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	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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A bandage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t4:o3:1
# text = A bandage
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bandage	bandage	NOUN	NN	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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A cold drink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t4:o4:1
# text = A cold drink
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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