Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 4
Some soft words just name the bad word without saying it: "the s-word", "the f-word".
Who acts: soft words · What happens: name, say · To what, where: bad 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 (soft words), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 words | det |
| 2 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 name | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 name | advmod |
| 5 | name | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 word | amod |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | obj |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 saying | mark |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 name | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saying | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 word | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 word | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 word | det |
| 15 | s | s | X | _ | 17 word | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 s | punct |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saying | ccomp |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 word | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 word | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 word | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 word | det |
| 22 | f | f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 word | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 f | punct |
| 24 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | parataxis |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 word | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | present | some soft words | the bad word | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | some soft words not said here | 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:4.
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): R8-pos-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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