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title: Which of these is a rude gesture, not rude words? — Soft words for hard things: rudeness a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which of these is a rude gesture, not rude words? Test 14 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «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 wrong.
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# Test 14 · ★★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

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Which of these is a rude gesture, not rude words?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 14 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «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/40-with-all-due-respect/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t14:1
# text = Which of these is a rude gesture, not rude words?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	gesture	gesture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of a rude gesture and rude words | tree rules |

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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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Per my last email

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t14:o1:1
# text = Per my last email
1	Per	per	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	email	email	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **email** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom email «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No offence, but

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t14:o2:1
# text = No offence, but
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	offence	offence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The two-fingered salute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t14:o3:1
# text = The two-fingered salute
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	fingered	finger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	salute	salute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finger** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Interesting choice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t14:o4:1
# text = Interesting choice
1	Interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	choice	choice	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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