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title: "Bloomin'" is a British mild stand-in for the swear word "bloody", a… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics
description: "Bloomin'" is a British mild stand-in for the swear word "bloody", as in "bloomin' rain". Who acts: Bloomin. 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 11

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"Bloomin'" is a British mild stand-in for the swear word "bloody", as in "bloomin' rain".

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**Who acts:** Bloomin · **What happens:** be, swear · **To what, where:** British mild stand in

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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 (Bloomin), 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:11
# text = "Bloomin'" is a British mild stand-in for the swear word "bloody", as in "bloomin' rain".
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Bloomin	Bloomin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	in	in	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	compound	_	_
15	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	bloomin	bloomin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:amod
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:appos
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- 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 | **is a** | present | Bloomin | a British mild stand in |  |  |  | for the swear word as bloomin rain | tree rules |
| 2 | **swear** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: 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:039-pardon-my-french.lesson:11`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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