Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 4
Office emails have their own polite rudeness: "per my last email" means "you did not read what I already wrote", and news reports call a shouting match "a frank exchange of views".
Who acts: Office emails, you, Grown ups, news reports, my · What happens: have, mean, not read, write, call, email · To what, where: own polite rudeness, shouting match, views · 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 (Office emails, you, Grown ups, news reports), 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 | Office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 emails | compound |
| 2 | emails | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj | |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 rudeness | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rudeness | amod |
| 6 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rudeness | amod |
| 7 | rudeness | rudeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 means | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 email | punct |
| 10 | per | per | ADP | _ | 13 email | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 email | nmod:poss |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 email | amod |
| 13 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | obl | ||
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 email | punct |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 read | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 read | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 read | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 read | advmod |
| 20 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 means | ccomp |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 read | obj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 wrote | nsubj |
| 23 | already | already | ADV | _ | 24 wrote | advmod |
| 24 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 what | acl:relcl |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 read | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 call | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 call | cc |
| 28 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reports | compound |
| 29 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 call | nsubj |
| 30 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 means | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 match | det |
| 32 | shouting | shouting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 match | compound |
| 33 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 call | obj |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 exchange | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 exchange | det |
| 36 | frank | frank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 exchange | amod |
| 37 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 call | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 views | case |
| 39 | views | view | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 exchange | nmod |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 exchange | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Office emails | emails's own polite rudeness | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rudeness=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | per my last email | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not read in a quote | past · do-support | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 4 | write in a quote | past | Grown ups = up | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | call | present | news reports | a shouting match | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme exchange=Result | ||||
| 6 | email in a quote | my | nom email «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | exchange in a quote | views | nom exchange «phenomenon 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:4.
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 ×3, 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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