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title: help desk note: "fixed it, ID10T error lol". what happened? — Soft words for hard things: stupidity… · tree and pragmatics
description: help desk note: "fixed it, ID10T error lol". what happened? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 36 «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness» 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 2 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness

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help desk note: "fixed it, ID10T error lol". what happened?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** help, fix, happen · **To what, where:** desk note, note · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 36 «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness» 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/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:36-dim-and-round-the-bend:t2:1
# text = help desk note: "fixed it, ID10T error lol". what happened?
1	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	desk	desk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	ID10T	ID10T	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
15	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | imperative | you *not said here* | desk note |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent note=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **fix** *in a quote* | past |  | note |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary error=Product |
| 3 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The user made a silly mistake himself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:36-dim-and-round-the-bend:t2:o1:1
# text = The user made a silly mistake himself
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	user	user	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the user | a silly mistake |  |  |  | user *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The computer had a dangerous virus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:36-dim-and-round-the-bend:t2:o2:1
# text = The computer had a dangerous virus
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	computer	computer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the computer | a dangerous virus |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virus=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The help desk broke the computer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:36-dim-and-round-the-bend:t2:o3:1
# text = The help desk broke the computer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	desk	desk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	computer	computer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | the help desk | the computer |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer computer=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A cable numbered ten was missing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:36-dim-and-round-the-bend:t2:o4:1
# text = A cable numbered ten was missing
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	numbered	number	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **number** | participle | a cable *not said here* | ten |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | a cable |  |  |  |  | missing *property* | tree rules |

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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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