Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 11

"Shut the front door!" is an American jokey cry of surprise, a cleaned-up form of a ruder phrase; it has nothing to do with doors.

Who acts: door · What happens: shut, be, clean up, have, do, form · To what, where: front door, American jokey cry, nothing, ruder phrase · 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 (door), 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 Shut	punct
2	Shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 cry	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
4	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 door	amod
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Shut	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Shut	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Shut	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 cry	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cry	det
10	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cry	amod
11	jokey	jokey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cry	amod
12	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 surprise	case
14	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cry	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 form	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 form	det
17	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 form	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 up	punct
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 cleaned	compound:prt
20	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cry	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 phrase	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 phrase	det
23	ruder	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 phrase	amod
24	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 form	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 has	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 has	nsubj
27	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 cry	parataxis
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 has	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 do	mark
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 nothing	acl
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 doors	case
32	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 do	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cry	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shut in a quote	infinitive		the front door		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
2	be speech: express	present		a American jokey cry and a cleaned form of a ruder phrase	of surprise	tree rules
3	clean up	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	have	present	door	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	do	to-infinitive	door not said here	nothing not said here	with doors	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	form			a ruder phrase		nom form «communication 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:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:11.

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): R4-particle ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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