Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 6
The softer word keeps the feeling (anger, surprise, pain) but drops the shock.
Who acts: softer word · What happens: keep, drop · To what, where: feeling, shock
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 (softer 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 feeling | det |
| 6 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | obj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 anger | punct |
| 8 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feeling | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 surprise | punct |
| 10 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 anger | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pain | punct |
| 12 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 anger | conj |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 anger | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 drops | cc |
| 15 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 keeps | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shock | det |
| 17 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drops | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keeps | 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 | keep | present | the softer word | the feeling | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drop | present | the softer word not said here | the shock | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Theme |
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:6.
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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