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title: "The f-word" is a polite way to name the strongest common English sw… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics
description: "The f-word" is a polite way to name the strongest common English swear word without saying it. Who acts: f word. 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 26

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"The f-word" is a polite way to name the strongest common English swear word without saying it.

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**Who acts:** f word · **What happens:** be, name, say · **To what, where:** polite way, strongest common English swear word, word · **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 (f word), 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:26
# text = "The f-word" is a polite way to name the strongest common English swear word without saying it.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	f	f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
14	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
15	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	swear	swear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
19	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | the f word | a polite way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **name** | to-infinitive |  | the strongest common English swear word |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | word |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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:26`.

**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): no change. **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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