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title: "Effing" is British slang that says only the first sound of the f-wo… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics
description: "Effing" is British slang that says only the first sound of the f-word swear. Who acts: Effing, British slang. 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 24

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"Effing" is British slang that says only the first sound of the f-word swear.

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**Who acts:** Effing, British slang · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** British slang, first sound · **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 (Effing, British slang), 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:24
# text = "Effing" is British slang that says only the first sound of the f-word swear.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Effing	Effing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	f	f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	swear	swear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | Effing | British slang |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | British slang | the first sound of the f word |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sound=Topic |

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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:24`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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