Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 1
So they use cover words: "strong language", "colourful language", "some choice words", "expletive deleted".
Who acts: Newspapers · What happens: use, delete · To what, where: cover words, expletive
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 use | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 words | compound |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 language | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 language | punct |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 language | amod |
| 9 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 words | appos |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 language | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 language | punct |
| 13 | colourful | colourful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 language | amod |
| 14 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | obj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 language | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 words | punct |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 words | det |
| 19 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 words | compound |
| 20 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | obj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 words | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 24 | expletive | expletive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deleted | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | deleted | delete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 use | advcl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Newspapers = newspaper | cover words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | delete in a quote | participle · passive | expletive | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:039-pardon-my-french.lesson:1.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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