--- title: Swear words are strong words people say when hurt, angry or shocked;… — Screens, diets, sofas and late nights · tree and pragmatics description: Swear words are strong words people say when hurt, angry or shocked; adults try not to swear in front of children and often feel embarrassed when they slip. Who acts: Swear words, people, adults. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Swear words, people, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.lesson:13 # text = Swear words are strong words people say when hurt, angry or shocked; adults try not to swear in front of children and often feel embarrassed when they slip. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Swear swear NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nsubj 7 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 9 hurt hurt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 13 shocked shocked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 swear swear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 25 often often ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 27 embarrassed embarrassed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 when when SCONJ WRB _ 30 mark _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 slip slip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | Swear words | strong words | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | strong words *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 3 | **try** | present | adults | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **swear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | adults *not said here* | | | front of children | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **feel** | present | adults *not said here* | | | | | embarrassed, often *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **slip** | present | people | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.lesson:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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