Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 5

There are also rude gestures with jokey names, like "the one-finger salute", which is no salute at all but an insult made with the middle finger.

Who acts: rude gestures, finger salute · What happens: be, make · To what, where: salute, all, insult

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 (rude gestures, finger salute), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	also	also	ADV	_	2 are	advmod
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gestures	amod
5	gestures	gesture	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 names	case
7	jokey	jokey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 names	amod
8	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gestures	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 salute	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	16 salute	case
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 salute	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 salute	det
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 finger	nummod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
15	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 salute	compound
16	salute	salute	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 names	conj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 salute	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 salute	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 salute	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 salute	cop
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 salute	det
22	salute	salute	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 salute	acl:relcl
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 salute	nmod
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 insult	cc
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 insult	det
27	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 salute	conj
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 insult	acl
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 finger	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 finger	det
31	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 finger	amod
32	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	rude gestures with jokey names and the finger salute but a insult		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	the finger salute but a insult	no salute	all		tree rules
3	make	participle		a insult not said here		with the middle finger	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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:5.

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): R5-strong ×2. 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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