Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 6

"An f-bomb" means one use of the f-word, the strongest common swear word; it is American slang, as in "he dropped an f-bomb".

Who acts: f bomb, bomb, Ireland · What happens: mean, be, drop, use · To what, where: one use, American slang, f bomb, f 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 (f bomb, bomb, Ireland), 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	_	5 bomb	punct
2	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bomb	det
3	f	f	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bomb	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 f	punct
5	bomb	bomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 bomb	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 use	nummod
9	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 word	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 word	det
12	f	f	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 word	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 f	punct
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 word	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 word	det
17	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 word	amod
18	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 word	amod
19	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 word	compound
20	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 word	appos
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 slang	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 slang	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 slang	cop
24	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 slang	amod
25	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dropped	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 dropped	mark
28	in	in	ADP	_	27 as	fixed
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 dropped	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dropped	nsubj
31	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 means	parataxis
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bomb	det
33	f	f	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bomb	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 f	punct
35	bomb	bomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dropped	obj
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 dropped	punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	a f bomb	one use of the f word	tree rules
2	is a	present	bomb	American slang	tree rules
3	drop in a quote	past	Ireland	a f bomb	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bomb=Theme
4	use			the f word	nom use «act transitive»: of=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:6.

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 ×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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