Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 13

"With the greatest respect" usually means "I think you are quite wrong"; in British speech it can mean "you are a fool".

Who acts: I, you, it · What happens: mean, think, be · To what, where: fool · 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 (I, you, it), 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	_	8 means	punct
2	With	with	ADP	_	5 respect	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 respect	det
4	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 respect	amod
5	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 respect	punct
7	usually	usually	ADV	_	8 means	advmod
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 think	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 think	nsubj
11	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 wrong	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 wrong	cop
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 wrong	advmod
15	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 think	ccomp
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 think	punct
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 mean	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 speech	case
19	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 speech	amod
20	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mean	obl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 mean	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 mean	aux
23	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 means	parataxis
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 fool	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 fool	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 fool	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fool	det
28	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mean	ccomp
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 fool	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
hedged: yes
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present			with the greatest respect; usually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	think speech: other in a quote	present	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	you		wrong property	tree rules
4	mean	can	it		in British speech	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in speech=Attribute
5	is a in a quote	present	you	a fool		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:13.

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, R7-rel-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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