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title: "Gosh darn it" is an American polite form of the curse "God damn it". — Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madnes… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Gosh darn it" is an American polite form of the curse "God damn it". 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing, sentence 23

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"Gosh darn it" is an American polite form of the curse "God damn it".

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**What happens:** darn, be, damn · **To what, where:** annoyance, American polite form · **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: 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:23
# text = "Gosh darn it" is an American polite form of the curse "God damn it".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Gosh	gosh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	darn	darn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	damn	damn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
19	.	.	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 | **darn** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | annoyance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a American polite form |  |  |  | of the curse | tree rules |
| 3 | **damn** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | annoyance |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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:23`.

**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): R6-punct-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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