Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing, sentence 5

So when a grandmother drops a cup and cries "Gosh darn it!", she is saying a much stronger curse in a polite shape that nobody minds.

Who acts: grandmother, nobody · What happens: drop, cry, darn, say, mind · To what, where: cup, stronger curse, polite shape · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 drops	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 drops	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 grandmother	det
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drops	nsubj
5	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 saying	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cup	det
7	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drops	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cries	cc
9	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drops	conj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 darn	punct
11	Gosh	gosh	INTJ	_	12 darn	discourse
12	darn	darn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 drops	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 darn	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 darn	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 darn	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saying	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 saying	aux
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 curse	det
21	much	much	ADV	_	22 stronger	advmod
22	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 curse	amod
23	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saying	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 shape	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 shape	det
26	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shape	amod
27	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 curse	nmod
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 minds	obj
29	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 minds	nsubj
30	minds	mind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 shape	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	drop	present	a grandmother	a cup		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme
2	cry speech: express	present	a grandmother not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	darn in a quote	infinitive	a grandmother not said here	cup		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present · progressive	grandmother	a stronger curse	a polite shape	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent curse=Theme in shape=Manner
5	mind	present	nobody	a polite shape		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:euphemisms:037-bats-and-gosh.lesson:5.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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