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title: A council leaflet: "Free swimming for senior citizens on Mondays." W… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics
description: A council leaflet: "Free swimming for senior citizens on Mondays." Who swims free? Test 13 of lesson 8 «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 13 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily function…

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A council leaflet: "Free swimming for senior citizens on Mondays." Who swims free?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** swim

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This is test 13 of lesson 8 «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks» 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/8-toilets-and-getting-older/#t13).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A council leaflet: "Free swimming for senior citizens on Mondays."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t13:1
# text = A council leaflet: "Free swimming for senior citizens on Mondays."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	leaflet	leaflet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	senior	senior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Mondays	Monday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Who swims free?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t13:2
# text = Who swims free?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swims	swim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | present |  |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Teenagers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t13:o1:1
# text = Teenagers
1	Teenagers	teenager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Old people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t13:o2:1
# text = Old people
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Council workers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t13:o3:1
# text = Council workers
1	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lifeguards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t13:o4:1
# text = Lifeguards
1	Lifeguards	lifeguard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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