Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 9
"Bother!" is an old-fashioned British mild word for annoyance, used instead of "damn".
Who acts: Bother · What happens: be, use · To what, where: fashioned British mild word
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 (Bother), 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 Bother | punct |
| 2 | Bother | bother | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 word | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bother | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bother | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 word | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 word | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fashioned | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| 9 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 word | amod |
| 10 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 word | amod |
| 11 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 word | amod |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 annoyance | case |
| 14 | annoyance | annoyance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 word | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 used | punct |
| 16 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 word | acl |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 20 damn | advmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 damn | case |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 damn | punct |
| 20 | damn | damn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 used | obl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 damn | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 word | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Bother | a fashioned British mild word | for annoyance | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | participle | a fashioned British mild word not said here | of damn | vn eat-39.1 «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:9.
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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