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title: Little Ava on a car trip: "Mummy, is it a number one or a number two… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Ava on a car trip: "Mummy, is it a number one or a number two?" — "Just a one, sweetie." What does Ava need? Test 8 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 quest
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# Test 8 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

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Little Ava on a car trip: "Mummy, is it a number one or a number two?" — "Just a one, sweetie." What does Ava need?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Little Ava, Ava · **What happens:** be, need · **To what, where:** number

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Little Ava on a car trip: "Mummy, is it a number one or a number two?" — "Just a one, sweetie."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t8:1
# text = Little Ava on a car trip: "Mummy, is it a number one or a number two?" — "Just a one, sweetie."
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Mummy	mummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	sweetie	sweetie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	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 | Little Ava on a car trip and Mummy | a number or a number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 does Ava need?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t8:2
# text = What does Ava need?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **need** | present · do-support | Ava |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A poo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t8:o1:1
# text = A poo
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poo	poo	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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To be sick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t8:o2:1
# text = To be sick
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A wee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t8:o3:1
# text = A wee
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wee	wee	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 snack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t8:o4:1
# text = A snack
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	snack	snack	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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