Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 16

"Shoot!" is an American mild word used instead of the s-word, a rude word for poo.

Who acts: Shoot · What happens: be, use · To what, where: American 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 (Shoot), 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 Shoot	punct
2	Shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 word	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Shoot	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Shoot	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 word	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 word	det
7	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 word	amod
8	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 word	amod
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 word	acl
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	16 word	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 word	det
14	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 word	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 s	punct
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 used	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 word	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 word	det
19	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 word	amod
20	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 word	appos
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 poo	case
22	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 word	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 word	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Shoot	a American mild word					tree rules
2	use	participle		a American mild word not said here				instead the s word	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:16.

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 ×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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