Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 6

To understand polite rudeness, ignore the kind words and listen for what comes after them and how it is said.

Who acts: you · What happens: understand, ignore, listen, come, say · To what, where: polite rudeness, kind words, rudeness · 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 (you), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 understand	mark
2	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ignore	advcl
3	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rudeness	amod
4	rudeness	rudeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 understand	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ignore	punct
6	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 words	det
8	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ignore	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 listen	cc
11	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 ignore	conj
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 comes	mark
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 comes	nsubj
14	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 listen	ccomp
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 comes	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 said	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 said	aux:pass
21	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 comes	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ignore	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	understand	to-infinitive	you not said here	polite rudeness		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer rudeness=Stimulus
2	ignore	imperative	you not said here	the kind words		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	listen	infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
4	come	present			after words = word	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	present · passive		rudeness		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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:6.

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): no change. 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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