--- title: Grandpa, reading old letters: "Dash it all, I've lost my place!" Whi… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness a… · tree and pragmatics description: Grandpa, reading old letters: "Dash it all, I've lost my place!" Which modern word means the same? Test 9 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/38-drat-and-the-f-word/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/38-drat-and-the-f-word/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing Grandpa, reading old letters: "Dash it all, I've lost my place!" Which modern word means the same? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Grandpa, I · **What happens:** read, dash, lose, mean · **To what, where:** old letters, it, place, same · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Grandpa, reading old letters: "Dash it all, I've lost my place!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t9:1 # text = Grandpa, reading old letters: "Dash it all, I've lost my place!" 1 Grandpa grandpa NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Dash dash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ! ! PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | gerund | Grandpa | old letters | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dash** *in a quote* | infinitive | Grandpa *not said here* | it | | | | | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **lose** *in a quote* | present · perfect | I | my place | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality | 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:* Which modern word means the same? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t9:2 # text = Which modern word means the same? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 2 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | the same | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Draw ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t9:o1:1 # text = Draw 1 Draw draw NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Run ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t9:o2:1 # text = Run 1 Run run VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Damn ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t9:o3:1 # text = Damn 1 Damn damn ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Hurry ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:38-drat-and-the-f-word:t9:o4:1 # text = Hurry 1 Hurry hurry VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hurry** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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