Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 24
"Effing" is British slang that says only the first sound of the f-word swear.
Who acts: Effing, British slang · What happens: be, say · To what, where: British slang, first sound · 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 (Effing, British slang), 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 Effing | punct |
| 2 | Effing | Effing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slang | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Effing | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 slang | cop |
| 5 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 slang | amod |
| 6 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 says | nsubj |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 slang | acl:relcl |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 sound | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sound | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 sound | amod |
| 12 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 word | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 word | det |
| 15 | f | f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 word | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 f | punct |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sound | nmod |
| 18 | swear | swear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 word | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 slang | 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 | Effing | British slang | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | British slang | the first sound of the f word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sound=Topic |
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:24.
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 ×2. 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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