Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 23
"Some choice words" means swear words or insults, as in "she had some choice words for the referee".
Who acts: choice words, Effing · What happens: mean, have · To what, where: swear words, choice words · 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 (choice words, Effing), 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 | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 words | det |
| 3 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 words | compound |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 words | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | swear | swear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 words | compound |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 insults | cc |
| 10 | insults | insult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 words | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 as | fixed |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | parataxis |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 words | det |
| 18 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 words | compound |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 referee | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 referee | det |
| 22 | referee | referee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 words | nmod |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | some choice words | swear words or insults | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | Effing | some choice words | for the referee | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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:23.
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, 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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