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title: An old cottage advert: "Charming garden with original privy." What i… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics
description: An old cottage advert: "Charming garden with original privy." What is in the garden? Test 5 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 ea
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# Test 5 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily function…

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An old cottage advert: "Charming garden with original privy." What is in the garden?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** garden

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* An old cottage advert: "Charming garden with original privy."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t5:1
# text = An old cottage advert: "Charming garden with original privy."
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	privy	privy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* What is in the garden?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t5:2
# text = What is in the garden?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the garden |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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An old outdoor toilet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t5:o1:1
# text = An old outdoor toilet
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	outdoor	outdoor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	toilet	toilet	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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A private pond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t5:o2:1
# text = A private pond
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A hidden treasure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t5:o3:1
# text = A hidden treasure
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	treasure	treasure	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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A secret path

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t5:o4:1
# text = A secret path
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	path	path	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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**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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