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title: In a Mexico travel guide: "Drink bottled water to avoid Montezuma's… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a Mexico travel guide: "Drink bottled water to avoid Montezuma's revenge." What are tourists avoiding? Test 7 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
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# Test 7 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

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In a Mexico travel guide: "Drink bottled water to avoid Montezuma's revenge." What are tourists avoiding?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Montezuma, tourists · **What happens:** drink, bottle, avoid, revenge · **To what, where:** bottled water, revenge

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a Mexico travel guide: "Drink bottled water to avoid Montezuma's revenge."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t7:1
# text = In a Mexico travel guide: "Drink bottled water to avoid Montezuma's revenge."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	bottled	bottle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	Montezuma	Montezuma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | bottled water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 2 | **bottle** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **avoid** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | Montezuma's revenge |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent revenge=Location |
| 4 | **revenge** *in a quote* |  | Montezuma |  |  |  |  |  | nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 are tourists avoiding?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t7:2
# text = What are tourists avoiding?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	tourists	tourist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	avoiding	avoid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avoid** | present · progressive | tourists |  |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent what=Location |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Sunstroke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t7:o1:1
# text = Sunstroke
1	Sunstroke	sunstroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Being robbed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t7:o2:1
# text = Being robbed
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	robbed	rob	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rob** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP» |

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

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Getting diarrhoea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t7:o3:1
# text = Getting diarrhoea
1	Getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	diarrhoea	diarrhoea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | gerund |  | diarrhoea |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer diarrhoea=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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An angry king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t7:o4:1
# text = An angry king
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	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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