Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 23
"A robust discussion" means a heated argument; it is official language.
Who acts: robust discussion, argument · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: heated argument, official language
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 (robust discussion, argument), 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 | _ | 4 discussion | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 discussion | det |
| 3 | robust | robust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 discussion | amod |
| 4 | discussion | discussion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 discussion | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 argument | det |
| 8 | heated | heat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 argument | amod |
| 9 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 language | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 language | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 language | cop |
| 13 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 language | amod |
| 14 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a robust discussion | a heated argument | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | argument | official language | 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:23.
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): 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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