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title: A brochure: "Luxury cruises for the over-60s — your golden years des… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet… · tree and pragmatics
description: A brochure: "Luxury cruises for the over-60s — your golden years deserve it!" Who is the cruise for? Test 9 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 qu
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# Test 9 · Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily function…

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A brochure: "Luxury cruises for the over-60s — your golden years deserve it!" Who is the cruise for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** brochure · **What happens:** deserve, be · **To what, where:** it

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A brochure: "Luxury cruises for the over-60s — your golden years deserve it!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t9:1
# text = A brochure: "Luxury cruises for the over-60s — your golden years deserve it!"
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brochure	brochure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Luxury	luxury	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cruises	cruise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	over-60s	over-60	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	deserve	deserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deserve** *in a quote* | present | a brochure | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Who is the cruise for?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t9:2
# text = Who is the cruise for?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cruise	cruise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

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

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Older, retired people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t9:o1:1
# text = Older, retired people
1	Older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	retired	retired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Families with babies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t9:o2:1
# text = Families with babies
1	Families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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People who buy gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t9:o3:1
# text = People who buy gold
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	buy	buy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | present | People | gold |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Young couples

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:8-toilets-and-getting-older:t9:o4:1
# text = Young couples
1	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	couples	couple	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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**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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