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title: "Flipping" is a British mild stand-in for "bloody" or the f-word, as… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics
description: "Flipping" is a British mild stand-in for "bloody" or the f-word, as in "flipping freezing". Who acts: Flipping. 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 23

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"Flipping" is a British mild stand-in for "bloody" or the f-word, as in "flipping freezing".

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**Who acts:** Flipping · **What happens:** flip, be · **To what, where:** British mild stand in, freezing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Flipping), 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:23
# text = "Flipping" is a British mild stand-in for "bloody" or the f-word, as in "flipping freezing".
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Flipping	flip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	in	in	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nmod	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	f	f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	flipping	flip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	_
25	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flip** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Flipping | a British mild stand in |  |  |  | for bloody or the f word | tree rules |
| 3 | **flip** *in a quote* | gerund | Flipping *not said here* | freezing |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freezing=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:038-drat-and-the-f-word.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): R5-strong ×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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