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title: «grown-ups swear on voice all the time, can't stop em». What can you… — Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes» · tree and pragmatics
description: «grown-ups swear on voice all the time, can't stop em». What can you do? Test 10 of lesson 406 «Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»» of the everyday 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 10 · Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»

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«grown-ups swear on voice all the time, can't stop em». What can you do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** grown ups, you · **What happens:** grow, swear, not stop, do · **To what, where:** voice, em

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This is test 10 of lesson 406 «Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»» of the everyday 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/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «grown-ups swear on voice all the time, can't stop em».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:406-toxic-players-and-swearing:t10:1
# text = «grown-ups swear on voice all the time, can't stop em».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	swear	swear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
15	em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **swear** *in a quote* | present | grown ups |  |  | voice | time |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **stop** *in a quote* | can |  | em *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=Eventuality |

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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 can you do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:406-toxic-players-and-swearing:t10:2
# text = What can you do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Swear back at them until they stop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:406-toxic-players-and-swearing:t10:o1:1
# text = Swear back at them until they stop
1	Swear	swear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at them *= they* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stop** | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Unplug the router

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:406-toxic-players-and-swearing:t10:o2:1
# text = Unplug the router
1	Unplug	unplug	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	router	router	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unplug** | imperative | you *not said here* | the router |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, you just have to sit and hear it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:406-toxic-players-and-swearing:t10:o3:1
# text = Nothing, you just have to sit and hear it
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | you | Nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | to-infinitive | Nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | infinitive | Nothing *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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

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Turn voice chat off or set it to friends only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:406-toxic-players-and-swearing:t10:o4:1
# text = Turn voice chat off or set it to friends only
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn off** | imperative | you *not said here* | voice chat |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chat=Patient |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive | you *not said here* | chat |  |  |  | to friends | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result |

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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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