Test 7 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing
White House tape transcript: "I don't give a [expletive deleted]." What was left out?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: I · What happens: not give, delete, leave out · To what, where: expletive
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 39 «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» 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.
The question
Sentence 1: White House tape transcript: "I don't give a [expletive deleted]."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 House | amod |
| 2 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 transcript | compound |
| 3 | tape | tape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 transcript | compound |
| 4 | transcript | transcript | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 give | advmod |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 transcript | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 expletive | det |
| 12 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 13 expletive | punct |
| 13 | expletive | expletive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | deleted | delete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 expletive | acl |
| 15 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 14 deleted | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give in a quote | present · do-support | I | a expletive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expletive=Theme | ||||
| 2 | delete in a quote | participle | a expletive not said here | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 was left out?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 left | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux:pass |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 left | compound:prt |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave out | past · passive | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
The options
Option 1
A name
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A secret plan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 plan | det |
| 2 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 plan | amod |
| 3 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A number
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 number | det |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A swear word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | swear | swear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 word | compound |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | 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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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