Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 25
"Naff off!" is a British slang way to say "go away", softer than the f-word version.
Who acts: Naff · What happens: be, say, go away · To what, where: British slang way · 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 (Naff), 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 Naff | punct |
| 2 | Naff | Naff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 way | nsubj |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 Naff | compound:prt |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Naff | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Naff | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 way | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 8 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 9 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 way | compound |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 way | acl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | ccomp |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 softer | punct |
| 18 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 way | parataxis |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 version | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 version | det |
| 21 | f | f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 word | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 f | punct |
| 23 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 version | compound |
| 24 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 softer | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Naff | a British slang way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | go away in a quote | infinitive | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:25.
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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