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title: The softer word keeps the feeling (anger, surprise, pain) but drops… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics
description: The softer word keeps the feeling (anger, surprise, pain) but drops the shock. Who acts: softer 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 6

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The softer word keeps the feeling (anger, surprise, pain) but drops the shock.

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**Who acts:** softer word · **What happens:** keep, drop · **To what, where:** feeling, shock

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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 (softer 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:6
# text = The softer word keeps the feeling (anger, surprise, pain) but drops the shock.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	softer	soft	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
8	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | the softer word | the feeling |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme |
| 2 | **drop** | present | the softer word *not said here* | the shock |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Theme |

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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:6`.

**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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