Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 10
"The two-fingered salute" is a jokey British name for the rude V-sign made with two fingers, palm turned inwards.
Who acts: fingered salute, palm · What happens: finger, be, make, turn · To what, where: jokey British name, rude V sign
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 (fingered salute, palm), 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 salute | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 salute | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 fingered | nummod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 two | punct |
| 5 | fingered | finger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 salute | amod |
| 6 | salute | salute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 name | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 salute | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 name | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 name | det |
| 10 | jokey | jokey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 name | amod |
| 11 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 name | amod |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 sign | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sign | det |
| 15 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sign | amod |
| 16 | V | v | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sign | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 V | punct |
| 18 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 name | nmod |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 sign | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 fingers | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 fingers | nummod |
| 22 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turned | punct |
| 24 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | nsubj |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 sign | acl |
| 26 | inwards | inwards | ADV | _ | 25 turned | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 name | 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 | finger in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the fingered salute | a jokey British name | for the rude V sign | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | participle | the rude V sign not said here | with two fingers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | turn | participle | palm | the rude V sign not said here | inwards property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sign=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:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:10.
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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