Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 10
"Heck" is a mild word used instead of "hell", as in "What the heck?"
Who acts: Heck · What happens: be, use · To what, where: mild word
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Heck), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Heck | punct |
| 2 | Heck | heck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Heck | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 word | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 6 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 word | amod |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 word | acl |
| 9 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 12 hell | advmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hell | case |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 hell | punct |
| 12 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 used | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 hell | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heck | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 heck | mark |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 heck | case |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 What | punct |
| 18 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 heck | nsubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heck | det |
| 20 | heck | heck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | appos |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 heck | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 heck | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Heck | a mild word | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | a mild word not said here | of hell | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:038-drat-and-the-f-word.lesson:10.
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): 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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