Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 26
"A word in your ear" means a quiet telling-off in private; it is British.
Who acts: word, off · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: quiet telling off
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 (word, off), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 ear | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ear | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 word | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 word | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 off | det |
| 10 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 off | amod |
| 11 | telling | telling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 off | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 off | punct |
| 13 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 private | case |
| 15 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 off | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 British | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 British | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 British | cop |
| 19 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a word in your ear | a quiet telling off | in private | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot off=Theme in private=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | present | off | british property | 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:26.
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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