Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 0
Newspapers, teachers and polite grown-ups often have to report swearing without repeating it.
Who acts: Newspapers · What happens: grow, have, report, swear, repeat · To what, where: it
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 (Newspapers), 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 | Newspapers | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 teachers | punct |
| 3 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Newspapers | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ups | cc |
| 5 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ups | amod |
| 6 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ups | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ups | punct |
| 8 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Newspapers | conj |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 have | advmod |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 report | mark |
| 12 | report | report | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 have | xcomp |
| 13 | swearing | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 report | obj |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 repeating | mark |
| 15 | repeating | repeat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 report | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 repeating | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | 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 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | Newspapers and teachers and polite grown ups | often property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | report | to-infinitive | Newspapers and teachers and polite grown ups not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | swear | gerund | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | repeat | gerund | Newspapers and teachers and polite grown ups not said here | it | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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:039-pardon-my-french.lesson:0.
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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