--- title: A medical leaflet: "Fibre helps regular bowel movements." What does… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics description: A medical leaflet: "Fibre helps regular bowel movements." What does fibre help? 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What does fibre help? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** medical leaflet · **What happens:** help · **To what, where:** regular bowel movements This is test 3 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/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A medical leaflet: "Fibre helps regular bowel movements." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t3:1 # text = A medical leaflet: "Fibre helps regular bowel movements." 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 medical medical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 leaflet leaflet NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Fibre fibre NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 bowel bowel NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 movements movement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** *in a quote* | present | a medical leaflet | regular bowel movements | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Beneficiary | 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. *Sentence 2:* What does fibre help? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t3:2 # text = What does fibre help? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 fibre fibre NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Breathing better ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t3:o1:1 # text = Breathing better 1 Breathing breathe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 1 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **breathe** | gerund | | | | | | good *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Sleeping well ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t3:o2:1 # text = Sleeping well 1 Sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | gerund | | | | | | well *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Moving your legs ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t3:o3:1 # text = Moving your legs 1 Moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | gerund | | your legs | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Pooing regularly ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t3:o4:1 # text = Pooing regularly 1 Pooing poo VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 regularly regularly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **poo** | gerund | | | | | | regularly *property* | tree rules | **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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