Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 25
"Eff off" is a rude British way to tell someone to go away, softened from the f-word.
Who acts: Eff, someone · What happens: be, tell, go away, soften · To what, where: rude British way, someone, f word · 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 (Eff, someone), 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 Eff | punct |
| 2 | Eff | Eff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 way | nsubj |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 Eff | flat |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eff | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 7 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 8 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 tell | mark |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 way | acl |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 tell | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tell | xcomp |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 softened | punct |
| 17 | softened | soften | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 way | acl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 word | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 word | det |
| 20 | f | f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 word | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 f | punct |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 softened | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Eff | a rude British way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | someone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go away not said to happen | to-infinitive | someone not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | soften | participle | a rude British way not said here | the f word | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:25.
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 ×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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