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title: White House tape transcript: "I don't give a [expletive deleted]." W… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness a… · tree and pragmatics
description: White House tape transcript: "I don't give a [expletive deleted]." What was left out? Test 7 · ★★ 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 each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 7 · ★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

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White House tape transcript: "I don't give a \[expletive deleted\]." What was left out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not give, delete, leave out · **To what, where:** expletive

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 39 «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/39-pardon-my-french/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* White House tape transcript: "I don't give a \[expletive deleted\]."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:39-pardon-my-french:t7:1
# text = White House tape transcript: "I don't give a [expletive deleted]."
1	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	tape	tape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	transcript	transcript	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	expletive	expletive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	deleted	delete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I | a expletive |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expletive=Theme |
| 2 | **delete** *in a quote* | participle |  | a expletive *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 was left out?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:39-pardon-my-french:t7:2
# text = What was left out?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave out** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:39-pardon-my-french:t7:o1:1
# text = A name
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A secret plan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:39-pardon-my-french:t7:o2:1
# text = A secret plan
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	plan	plan	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 number

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:39-pardon-my-french:t7:o3:1
# text = A number
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A swear word

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:39-pardon-my-french:t7:o4:1
# text = A swear word
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	swear	swear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	word	word	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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