--- title: "Mum, Lily tooted at the table! Gross!" What did Lily do? — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics description: "Mum, Lily tooted at the table! Gross!" What did Lily do? Test 12 of lesson 7 «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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: the toilet…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/) / t12 # Test 12 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions "Mum, Lily tooted at the table! Gross!" What did Lily do? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum, Lily · **What happens:** toot, do · **To what, where:** table This is test 12 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/#t12). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* "Mum, Lily tooted at the table! ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t12:1 # text = "Mum, Lily tooted at the table! 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 tooted toot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **toot** *in a quote* | past | Mum | | | the table | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=Location | 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:* Gross!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t12:2 # text = Gross!" 1 Gross gross NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. *Sentence 3:* What did Lily do? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t12:3 # text = What did Lily do? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past · do-support | Lily | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} She sang loudly ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t12:o1:1 # text = She sang loudly 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | She | | | | | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ### Option 2 {#o2} She blew a whistle ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t12:o2:1 # text = She blew a whistle 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 blew blow 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 whistle whistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blow** | past | She | a whistle | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} She burped ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t12:o3:1 # text = She burped 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 burped burp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burp** | past | She | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} She farted ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t12:o4:1 # text = She farted 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 farted fart VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fart** | past | She | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | **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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