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title: Where a published report records "expletive deleted", determine what… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where a published report records "expletive deleted", determine what has been omitted from the record. Exam question 1 of lesson 39 «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 ea
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# Exam question 1 · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

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Where a published report records "expletive deleted", determine what has been omitted from the record.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** published report records · **What happens:** publish, delete, determine, omit · **To what, where:** expletive, record

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 39 «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/39-pardon-my-french/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:39-pardon-my-french:e1:1
# text = Where a published report records "expletive deleted", determine what has been omitted from the record.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	expletive	expletive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	deleted	delete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	omitted	omit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **publish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **delete** *in a quote* | participle |  | expletive *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **determine** | infinitive | a published report records |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **omit** | present · perfect · passive | a published report records *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the record *goal* | vn exclude-107.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: what=Theme from record=Goal |

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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 {#o1}

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A grammatical error

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:39-pardon-my-french:e1:o1:1
# text = A grammatical error
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grammatical	grammatical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A vulgar or profane word

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:39-pardon-my-french:e1:o2:1
# text = A vulgar or profane word
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	profane	profane	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A confidential figure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:39-pardon-my-french:e1:o3:1
# text = A confidential figure
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	confidential	confidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	figure	figure	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 personal name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:39-pardon-my-french:e1:o4:1
# text = A personal name
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	name	name	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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