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title: "ugh someone let one rip in the lift 🤢" — what happened in the lift? — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics
description: "ugh someone let one rip in the lift 🤢" — what happened in the lift? Test 2 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
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# Test 2 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

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"ugh someone let one rip in the lift 🤢" — what happened in the lift?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** someone · **What happens:** let, happen · **To what, where:** one rip, lift 🤢, lift · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t2:1
# text = "ugh someone let one rip in the lift 🤢" — what happened in the lift?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	rip	rip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	lift	lift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	🤢	🤢	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
14	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lift	lift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | someone | one rip |  | the lift 🤢 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | past |  |  |  | the lift |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in lift=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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Someone ripped a poster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t2:o1:1
# text = Someone ripped a poster
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ripped	rip	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	poster	poster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rip** | past | Someone | a poster |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poster=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Someone shouted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t2:o2:1
# text = Someone shouted
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shouted	shout	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 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | Someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Someone tore their trousers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t2:o3:1
# text = Someone tore their trousers
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tore** | past | Someone | their trousers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Someone farted loudly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t2:o4:1
# text = Someone farted loudly
1	Someone	someone	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	_	_
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

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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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