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title: Some soft words just name the bad word without saying it: "the s-wor… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics
description: Some soft words just name the bad word without saying it: "the s-word", "the f-word". Who acts: soft words. 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 4

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Some soft words just name the bad word without saying it: "the s-word", "the f-word".

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**Who acts:** soft words · **What happens:** name, say · **To what, where:** bad 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 (soft words), 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:4
# text = Some soft words just name the bad word without saying it: "the s-word", "the f-word".
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	name	name	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	s	s	X	AFX	_	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	f	f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **name** | present | some soft words | the bad word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | some soft words *not said here* | 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:4`.

**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): R8-pos-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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