Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 14
"Bleeping" stands for any swear word, as if the word had been covered by a beep on TV.
Who acts: Bleeping, beep · What happens: stand, cover · To what, where: word
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 (Bleeping, beep), 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 Bleeping | punct |
| 2 | Bleeping | bleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bleeping | punct |
| 4 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 word | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 word | det |
| 7 | swear | swear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 word | compound |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stands | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 covered | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 covered | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 word | det |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 covered | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 covered | aux:pass |
| 16 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stands | advcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 beep | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 beep | det |
| 19 | beep | beep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 covered | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 TV | case |
| 21 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beep | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | Bleeping | for any swear word | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for word=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | cover | past · perfect · passive | a beep on TV | the word | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination |
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:14.
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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