--- title: Words like "freaking", "flipping" and "effing" work the same way for… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: Words like "freaking", "flipping" and "effing" work the same way for the strongest swear word, the f-word, so the speaker sounds cross but not filthy. Who acts: Words, speaker. 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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 (Words, speaker), 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:3 # text = Words like "freaking", "flipping" and "effing" work the same way for the strongest swear word, the f-word, so the speaker sounds cross but not filthy. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 2 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 freaking freak NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 8 flipping flip VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 effing eff NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 20 strongest strong ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 21 swear swear NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:appos 23 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 f f NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 speaker speaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 33 cross cross ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 filthy filthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flip** *in a quote* | gerund | Words like freaking and effing *not said here* | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **work** | present | Words like freaking and effing | the same way | | | | the strongest swear word *obl* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material | | 3 | **sound** | present | the speaker | | | | | cross *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:038-drat-and-the-f-word.lesson:3`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/38-drat-and-the-f-word/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/38-drat-and-the-f-word/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/38-drat-and-the-f-word/)