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title: "omg I'm gonna throw up, this ride's mental" — how does the rider fe… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics
description: "omg I'm gonna throw up, this ride's mental" — how does the rider feel? Test 9 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 wr
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# Test 9 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions

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"omg I'm gonna throw up, this ride's mental" — how does the rider feel?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I, rider · **What happens:** throw up, feel

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t9:1
# text = "omg I'm gonna throw up, this ride's mental" — how does the rider feel?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	omg	omg	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	gonna	gonna	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
16	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw up** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | present · do-support | the rider |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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Like throwing a ball

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t9:o1:1
# text = Like throwing a ball
1	Like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | gerund |  | a ball |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Like shouting for joy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t9:o2:1
# text = Like shouting for joy
1	Like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for joy | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient |

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

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Like vomiting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t9:o3:1
# text = Like vomiting
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	vomiting	vomiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Like jumping off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:7-wind-sick-and-runs:t9:o4:1
# text = Like jumping off
1	Like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump off** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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