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title: "Strewth!" is an Australian cry of surprise that comes from "God's t… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics
description: "Strewth!" is an Australian cry of surprise that comes from "God's truth". Who acts: Strewth, Australian cry. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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: rudeness and swearing, sentence 12

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"Strewth!" is an Australian cry of surprise that comes from "God's truth".

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**Who acts:** Strewth, Australian cry · **What happens:** be, come · **To what, where:** Australian cry, truth

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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 (Strewth, Australian cry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:038-drat-and-the-f-word.lesson:12
# text = "Strewth!" is an Australian cry of surprise that comes from "God's truth".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 038-drat-and-the-f-word.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	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Strewth	Strewth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Strewth | a Australian cry |  |  |  | of surprise | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | a Australian cry |  |  | God's truth |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from truth=Initial\_Location |

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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:038-drat-and-the-f-word.lesson:12`.

**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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