Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 14
"Holy moly!" is a jokey cry of surprise used instead of a ruder oath.
Who acts: Holy moly · What happens: be, use · To what, where: jokey cry
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 (Holy moly), 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 | _ | 3 moly | punct |
| 2 | Holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moly | amod |
| 3 | moly | moly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cry | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 moly | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 moly | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cry | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cry | det |
| 8 | jokey | jokey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cry | amod |
| 9 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 surprise | case |
| 11 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cry | nmod |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cry | acl |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 17 oath | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 instead | fixed |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 oath | det |
| 16 | ruder | rude | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 oath | compound |
| 17 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 used | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- other
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Holy moly | a jokey cry | of surprise | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | participle | a jokey cry not said here | instead a ruder oath | 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:14.
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): R7-rel-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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