Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 3

Words like "freaking", "flipping" and "effing" work the same way for the strongest swear word, the f-word, so the speaker sounds cross but not filthy.

Who acts: Words, speaker · What happens: flip, work, sound · To what, where: same way

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 (Words, speaker), 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	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 work	nsubj
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 freaking	case
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 freaking	punct
4	freaking	freak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Words	nmod
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 freaking	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flipping	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 flipping	punct
8	flipping	flip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 freaking	conj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 flipping	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 effing	cc
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 effing	punct
12	effing	eff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freaking	conj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 effing	punct
14	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 work	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	27 word	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 word	det
20	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 word	amod
21	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 word	compound
22	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 work	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 strongest	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 word	det
25	f	f	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 word	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 f	punct
27	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 word	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sounds	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	32 sounds	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 speaker	det
31	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sounds	nsubj
32	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 work	conj
33	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sounds	xcomp
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 filthy	cc
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 filthy	advmod
36	filthy	filthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cross	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 work	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	flip in a quote	gerund	Words like freaking and effing not said here			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	work	present	Words like freaking and effing	the same way	the strongest swear word obl	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material
3	sound	present	the speaker		cross property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:3.

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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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