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title: "For crying out loud" is a mild way of saying "for Christ's sake", s… — Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madnes… · tree and pragmatics
description: "For crying out loud" is a mild way of saying "for Christ's sake", showing annoyance. Who acts: crying, mild way. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing, sentence 21

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"For crying out loud" is a mild way of saying "for Christ's sake", showing annoyance.

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**Who acts:** crying, mild way · **What happens:** cry out, be, say, show · **To what, where:** mild way, annoyance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and 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 (crying, mild way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:037-bats-and-gosh.lesson:21
# text = "For crying out loud" is a mild way of saying "for Christ's sake", showing annoyance.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 037-bats-and-gosh.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
20	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	_
21	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry out** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | crying | a mild way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a mild way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Christ's sake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **show** | gerund | crying *not said here* | annoyance |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent annoyance=Recipient |

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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.

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**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:euphemisms:037-bats-and-gosh.lesson:21`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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