Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 15
"Expletive deleted" means a swear word was said here and has been left out of the written record.
Who acts: Expletive · What happens: delete, mean, swear, say, leave out, write · To what, where: Expletive, swear word · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Expletive), 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 Expletive | punct |
| 2 | Expletive | expletive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 3 | deleted | delete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Expletive | acl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 deleted | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 7 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 word | compound |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | aux:pass |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 means | ccomp |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 said | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 left | cc |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 left | aux:pass |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 left | compound:prt |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 record | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 record | det |
| 19 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 record | amod |
| 20 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | 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 | delete in a quote | participle | Expletive not said here | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Expletive | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | swear | infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · passive | a swear word | here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 5 | leave out | present · perfect · passive | of the written record | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 6 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:15.
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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