--- title: So when a grandmother drops a cup and cries "Gosh darn it!", she is… — Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madnes… · tree and pragmatics description: So when a grandmother drops a cup and cries "Gosh darn it!", she is saying a much stronger curse in a polite shape that nobody minds. Who acts: grandmother, nobody. 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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 (grandmother, nobody), 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:5 # text = So when a grandmother drops a cup and cries "Gosh darn it!", she is saying a much stronger curse in a polite shape that nobody minds. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 cries cry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 Gosh gosh INTJ UH _ 12 discourse _ _ 12 darn darn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 ! ! PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 much much ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 curse curse NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 obj _ _ 29 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 30 nsubj _ _ 30 minds mind VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **drop** | present | a grandmother | a cup | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | a grandmother *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **darn** *in a quote* | infinitive | a grandmother *not said here* | cup | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | grandmother | a stronger curse | | a polite shape | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent curse=Theme in shape=Manner | | 5 | **mind** | present | nobody | a polite shape | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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](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:5`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/4/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/)