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title: Newspapers, teachers and polite grown-ups often have to report swear… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics
description: Newspapers, teachers and polite grown-ups often have to report swearing without repeating it. Who acts: Newspapers. 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 clau
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# Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 0

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Newspapers, teachers and polite grown-ups often have to report swearing without repeating it.

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**Who acts:** Newspapers · **What happens:** grow, have, report, swear, repeat · **To what, where:** it

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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 (Newspapers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:039-pardon-my-french.lesson:0
# text = Newspapers, teachers and polite grown-ups often have to report swearing without repeating it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 039-pardon-my-french.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	report	report	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	swearing	swear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	obj	_	_
14	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	repeating	repeat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | Newspapers and teachers and polite grown ups |  |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **report** | to-infinitive | Newspapers and teachers and polite grown ups *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **swear** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **repeat** | gerund | Newspapers and teachers and polite grown ups *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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:039-pardon-my-french.lesson:0`.

**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): R6-punct-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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