Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 8
"The one-finger salute" is a jokey name for raising the middle finger as an insult.
Who acts: finger salute, jokey name · What happens: be, raise · To what, where: jokey name, middle finger
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 (finger salute, jokey name), 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 | _ | 6 salute | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 salute | det |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 finger | nummod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 5 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 salute | compound |
| 6 | salute | salute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 salute | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 name | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 name | det |
| 10 | jokey | jokey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 name | amod |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 raising | mark |
| 13 | raising | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 name | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 finger | det |
| 15 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 finger | amod |
| 16 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 raising | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 insult | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 insult | det |
| 19 | insult | insult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 raising | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 name | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the finger salute | a jokey name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | raise | gerund | a jokey name not said here | the middle finger | as a insult | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme |
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:8.
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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