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title: "eff off and leave my bike alone." What does the speaker want? — Soft words for hard things: rudeness a… · tree and pragmatics
description: "eff off and leave my bike alone." What does the speaker want? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 38 «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» 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 5 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

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"eff off and leave my bike alone." What does the speaker want?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, speaker · **What happens:** eff off, leave, want · **To what, where:** bike

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 38 «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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/euphemisms/38-drat-and-the-f-word/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "eff off and leave my bike alone."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t5:1
# text = "eff off and leave my bike alone."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	eff	eff	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eff off** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | my bike |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does the speaker want?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t5:2
# text = What does the speaker want?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present · do-support | the speaker |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The other person to ride the bike

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t5:o1:1
# text = The other person to ride the bike
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | to-infinitive |  | the bike |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The bike to be fixed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t5:o2:1
# text = The bike to be fixed
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The other person to go away now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t5:o3:1
# text = The other person to go away now
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The bike to be switched off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t5:o4:1
# text = The bike to be switched off
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	switched	switch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **switch off** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V» |

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