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title: "sorry I said 7 × 8 is 54, total brain fart, it's 56" What was the m… — Soft words for hard things: failure an… · tree and pragmatics
description: "sorry I said 7 × 8 is 54, total brain fart, it's 56" What was the mistake? Test 11 of lesson 33 «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 11 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes

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"sorry I said 7 × 8 is 54, total brain fart, it's 56" What was the mistake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** I, fart · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** total brain fart, 7 54, 56, mistake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 of lesson 33 «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes» 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/33-failure-and-mistakes/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:33-failure-and-mistakes:t11:1
# text = "sorry I said 7 × 8 is 54, total brain fart, it's 56" What was the mistake?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
6	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	5	dep	_	_
7	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	54	54	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fart	fart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	56	56	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
19	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | I | total brain fart |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | 7 54 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | fart | 56 and the mistake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | the mistake |  |  |  |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

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

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A silly moment of forgetting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:33-failure-and-mistakes:t11:o1:1
# text = A silly moment of forgetting
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	forgetting	forgetting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A trick on purpose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:33-failure-and-mistakes:t11:o2:1
# text = A trick on purpose
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A brain illness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:33-failure-and-mistakes:t11:o3:1
# text = A brain illness
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	illness	illness	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 rude joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:33-failure-and-mistakes:t11:o4:1
# text = A rude joke
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	joke	joke	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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