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title: "piss off, go take a running jump" What does the speaker want? — Soft words for hard things: rudeness a… · tree and pragmatics
description: "piss off, go take a running jump" What does the speaker want? Test 9 · ★★★ 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 right.
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# Test 9 · ★★★ · Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing

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"piss off, go take a running jump" What does the speaker want?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, speaker · **What happens:** piss off, go, take, want · **To what, where:** running jump

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This is test 9 · ★★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t9:1
# text = "piss off, go take a running jump" What does the speaker want?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	piss	piss	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	running	running	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
11	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
12	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **piss off** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a running jump |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Theme |
| 4 | **want** | present · do-support | the speaker | a running jump |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The other person to go away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t9:o1:1
# text = The other person to go away
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	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The other person to run faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t9:o2:1
# text = The other person to run faster
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	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The other person to do the long jump

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t9:o3:1
# text = The other person to do the long jump
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	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | the long jump |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The other person to come back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:40-with-all-due-respect:t9:o4:1
# text = The other person to come back
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	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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