Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 20
"Strong language" means swearing; TV and film warnings use it.
Who acts: Strong language, TV warnings · What happens: mean, use · To what, where: swearing, language
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 (Strong language, TV warnings), 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 | _ | 3 language | punct |
| 2 | Strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 language | amod |
| 3 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 language | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | swearing | swearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 use | punct |
| 8 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 warnings | compound |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 film | cc |
| 10 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 TV | conj |
| 11 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 use | nsubj |
| 12 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 use | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | 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 | mean | present | Strong language | swearing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swearing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | use | present | TV warnings | language | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:20.
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 ×2. 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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