--- title: Holiday postcard: "Great trip, but Dad got Delhi belly on day two."… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics description: Holiday postcard: "Great trip, but Dad got Delhi belly on day two." What happened to Dad? 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What happened to Dad? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dad · **What happens:** get, happen · **To what, where:** Delhi belly, Dad This is test 1 of lesson 7 «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/7-wind-sick-and-runs/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Holiday postcard: "Great trip, but Dad got Delhi belly on day two." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t1:1 # text = Holiday postcard: "Great trip, but Dad got Delhi belly on day two." 1 Holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 postcard postcard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 Delhi Delhi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 belly belly NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Dad | Delhi belly | | | day | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer belly=Stimulus | 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 happened to Dad? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t1:2 # text = What happened to Dad? 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 _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | | | Dad | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} He got sunburnt ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t1:o1:1 # text = He got sunburnt 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 sunburnt sunburnt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | He | | | | | sunburnt *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} He got diarrhoea ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t1:o2:1 # text = He got diarrhoea 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 diarrhoea diarrhoea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | He | diarrhoea | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer diarrhoea=Stimulus | ### Option 3 {#o3} He lost his luggage ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t1:o3:1 # text = He lost his luggage 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 luggage luggage NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | past | He | his luggage | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luggage=Eventuality | ### Option 4 {#o4} He ate too much curry and got fat ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t1:o4:1 # text = He ate too much curry and got fat 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 curry curry NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past | He | much curry | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curry=Patient | | 2 | **get** | past | He *not said here* | fat | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fat=Stimulus | **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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