Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 21
"Freaking" is a slangy stand-in for the f-word used as "very" or to show anger, as in "freaking cold".
Who acts: Freaking · What happens: be, use, show, freak · To what, where: slangy stand in, f word, anger · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Freaking), 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 Freaking | punct |
| 2 | Freaking | freak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 in | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Freaking | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 in | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 in | det |
| 6 | slangy | slangy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 in | amod |
| 7 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 in | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 in | punct |
| 9 | in | in | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 word | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 word | det |
| 12 | f | f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 word | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 f | punct |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 in | nmod |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 word | acl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 very | case |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 very | punct |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 used | obl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 very | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 show | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 show | mark |
| 22 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 used | advcl |
| 23 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 show | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 freaking | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 freaking | mark |
| 26 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 28 freaking | mark |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 freaking | punct |
| 28 | freaking | freak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 show | conj |
| 29 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 freaking | xcomp |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 cold | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 in | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Freaking | a slangy stand in | for the f word | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | participle | the f word not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | anger | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anger=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | freak in a quote | gerund | cold property | tree rules |
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:21.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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