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title: Someone giggles in class and says "Who broke wind?!" What happened? — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics
description: Someone giggles in class and says "Who broke wind?!" What happened? Test 9 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

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Someone giggles in class and says "Who broke wind?!" What happened?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Someone · **What happens:** giggle, say, break, happen · **To what, where:** wind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Someone giggles in class and says "Who broke wind?!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t9:1
# text = Someone giggles in class and says "Who broke wind?!"
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	giggles	giggle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?!	?!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **giggle** | present | Someone |  |  |  |  | in class | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in class=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **break** *in a quote* | past |  | wind |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wind=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 happened?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t9:2
# text = What happened?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Somebody broke a window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t9:o1:1
# text = Somebody broke a window
1	Somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | Somebody | a window |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Somebody broke a kite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t9:o2:1
# text = Somebody broke a kite
1	Somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kite	kite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | Somebody | a kite |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kite=Patient |

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

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Somebody farted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t9:o3:1
# text = Somebody farted
1	Somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	farted	fart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fart** | past | Somebody |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A storm blew the door open

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:6-toilet-words:t9:o4:1
# text = A storm blew the door open
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | a storm | the door |  |  |  | open *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent door=Patient |

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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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