Test 9 · ★★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

"piss off, go take a running jump" What does the speaker want?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, speaker · What happens: piss off, go, take, want · To what, where: running jump

This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 piss	punct
2	piss	piss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 piss	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 piss	conj
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 piss	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 jump	det
8	running	running	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jump	compound
9	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 want	obj
12	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 want	aux
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 speaker	det
14	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 want	nsubj
15	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 jump	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 piss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	piss off in a quote	imperative	you not said here		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	a running jump	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Theme
4	want	present · do-support	the speaker	a running jump	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The other person to go away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 person	amod
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 person	acl
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	to-infinitive						away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The other person to run faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 person	amod
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 run	mark
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 person	acl
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	to-infinitive						fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The other person to do the long jump

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 person	amod
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 person	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 jump	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 jump	amod
8	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	to-infinitive		the long jump					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Eventuality

Option 4

The other person to come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 person	amod
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 person	acl
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	to-infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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