--- title: "where's the head on this boat, I'm desperate" — what is the passeng… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics description: "where's the head on this boat, I'm desperate" — what is the passenger looking for? Test 2 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: the toilet…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/) / t2 # Test 2 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily function… "where's the head on this boat, I'm desperate" — what is the passenger looking for? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** head, passenger · **What happens:** be, look · **To what, where:** head, boat, passenger This is test 2 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/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t2:1 # text = "where's the head on this boat, I'm desperate" — what is the passenger looking for? 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 desperate desperate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 — - PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 passenger passenger NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 19 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | the head | | this boat | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the head | | | | | desperate *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | | the passenger | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **look** | gerund | the passenger *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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} The captain ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t2:o1:1 # text = The captain 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The bow ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t2:o2:1 # text = The bow 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The toilet ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t2:o3:1 # text = The toilet 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The life jackets ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t2:o4:1 # text = The life jackets 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 jackets jacket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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