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title: The coach yells "stop moanin, you're not sweatin, you're just glowin… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics
description: The coach yells "stop moanin, you're not sweatin, you're just glowin!" What is the coach joking about? Test 3 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 ea
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# Test 3 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

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The coach yells "stop moanin, you're not sweatin, you're just glowin!" What is the coach joking about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** coach, you · **What happens:** yell, stop, not be, be, joke · **To what, where:** moanin, sweatin, glowin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* The coach yells "stop moanin, you're not sweatin, you're just glowin!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t3:1
# text = The coach yells "stop moanin, you're not sweatin, you're just glowin!"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	yells	yell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
6	moanin	moanin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	sweatin	sweatin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	glowin	glowin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | present | the coach |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | moanin |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality moanin=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | sweatin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | glowin |  |  |  |  | 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 is the coach joking about?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t3:2
# text = What is the coach joking about?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the coach |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund | the coach *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Their bright T-shirts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t3:o1:1
# text = Their bright T-shirts
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	T	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sunburn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t3:o2:1
# text = Sunburn
1	Sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Their red faces from shame

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t3:o3:1
# text = Their red faces from shame
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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Their sweat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t3:o4:1
# text = Their sweat
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sweat	sweat	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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