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title: Others, like "blimey" and "strewth", were once oaths about God that… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics
description: Others, like "blimey" and "strewth", were once oaths about God that have worn soft with time. Who acts: Others, oaths. 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 c
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# Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 5

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Others, like "blimey" and "strewth", were once oaths about God that have worn soft with time.

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**Who acts:** Others, oaths · **What happens:** be, wear · **To what, where:** oaths

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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 (Others, oaths), 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:5
# text = Others, like "blimey" and "strewth", were once oaths about God that have worn soft with time.
# 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	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	blimey	blimey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	strewth	strewth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	oaths	oath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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** | past | Others | oaths |  |  |  | about God; once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | present · perfect | oaths |  |  |  | time | soft *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

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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:5`.

**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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