Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 23
"Flipping" is a British mild stand-in for "bloody" or the f-word, as in "flipping freezing".
Who acts: Flipping · What happens: flip, be · To what, where: British mild stand in, freezing · 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 (Flipping), 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 Flipping | punct |
| 2 | Flipping | flip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 in | csubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Flipping | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 in | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 in | det |
| 6 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 in | amod |
| 7 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 in | amod |
| 8 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 in | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 stand | punct |
| 10 | in | in | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 bloody | case |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bloody | punct |
| 13 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 in | nmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bloody | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 word | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 word | det |
| 17 | f | f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 word | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 f | punct |
| 19 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bloody | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 flipping | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 flipping | mark |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 flipping | mark |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 flipping | punct |
| 24 | flipping | flip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 word | conj |
| 25 | freezing | freezing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flipping | obj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 freezing | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 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 | flip in a quote | gerund | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Flipping | a British mild stand in | for bloody or the f word | tree rules | |||
| 3 | flip in a quote | gerund | Flipping not said here | freezing | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freezing=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:038-drat-and-the-f-word.lesson:23.
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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