Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 1
Grown-ups often say rude things in very polite clothes, and the polite words are a warning sign.
Who acts: Grown ups, polite words · What happens: grow, say, be · To what, where: rude things, polite clothes, warning sign · 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 (Grown ups, polite words), 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 | Grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ups | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grown | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | nsubj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 clothes | case |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 polite | advmod |
| 10 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 clothes | amod |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 say | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sign | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sign | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 words | det |
| 15 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 words | amod |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sign | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sign | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sign | det |
| 19 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sign | compound |
| 20 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | 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 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Grown ups | rude things | polite clothes | often property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in clothes=Manner | ||
| 3 | is a | present | the polite words | a warning sign | tree rules |
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:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:1.
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. 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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