Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 13
"Flaming" is a British stand-in for "bloody", as in "the flaming bus is late"; nothing is on fire.
Who acts: Flaming, flaming bus, nothing · What happens: be · To what, where: British stand in, fire
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 (Flaming, flaming bus, nothing), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Flaming | punct |
| 2 | Flaming | flaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 in | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Flaming | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 in | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 in | det |
| 6 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 in | amod |
| 7 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 in | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 stand | punct |
| 9 | in | in | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 bloody | case |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 bloody | punct |
| 12 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 in | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 bloody | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 in | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 in | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 late | mark |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 late | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bus | det |
| 19 | flaming | flaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bus | compound |
| 20 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 late | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 late | cop |
| 22 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 in | advcl |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 late | punct |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 in | punct |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 28 fire | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 fire | cop |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 fire | case |
| 28 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 in | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 in | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Flaming | a British stand in | for bloody | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the flaming bus | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | nothing | fire | tree rules |
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:13.
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): 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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