Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 26
"The f-word" is a polite way to name the strongest common English swear word without saying it.
Who acts: f word · What happens: be, name, say · To what, where: polite way, strongest common English swear word, 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 (f word), 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 | _ | 10 way | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 3 | f | f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 word | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 f | punct |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 way | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 word | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 way | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 name | mark |
| 12 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 way | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 word | det |
| 14 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 word | amod |
| 15 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 word | amod |
| 16 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 word | compound |
| 17 | swear | swear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 word | compound |
| 18 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 name | obj |
| 19 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 20 saying | mark |
| 20 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 name | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saying | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | 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 | the f word | a polite way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | name | to-infinitive | the strongest common English swear word | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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:26.
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): no change. 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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