Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 14

"I hear what you're saying" often means "I disagree and I will not change my mind"; it is British and polite.

Who acts: British way, you, mind, my · What happens: hear, say, mean, disagree, not change, be · To what, where: mind · 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 (British way, you, mind, my), 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	_	3 hear	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 means	ccomp
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 saying	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 saying	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 saying	aux
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hear	ccomp
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 means	advmod
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 disagree	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 disagree	nsubj
13	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 means	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 change	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 change	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 change	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 change	advmod
18	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 disagree	conj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mind	nmod:poss
20	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 change	obj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 disagree	punct
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 British	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 British	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 British	cop
25	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 means	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 polite	cc
27	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 British	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	present	a British way = way			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	mean	present			often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	disagree in a quote	present	a British way = way			vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not change in a quote	future	a British way = way	my mind		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
6	is	present	mind		british property	tree rules
7	be		mind not said here			tree rules
8	mind in a quote		my			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:14.

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 ×2, 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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