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title: "Flaming" is a British stand-in for "bloody", as in "the flaming bus… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics
description: "Flaming" is a British stand-in for "bloody", as in "the flaming bus is late"; nothing is on fire. Who acts: Flaming, flaming bus, nothing. 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 
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# Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 13

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"Flaming" is a British stand-in for "bloody", as in "the flaming bus is late"; nothing is on fire.

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**Who acts:** Flaming, flaming bus, nothing · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** British stand in, fire

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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 (Flaming, flaming bus, nothing), 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:13
# text = "Flaming" is a British stand-in for "bloody", as in "the flaming bus is late"; nothing is on fire.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Flaming	flaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	in	in	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	flaming	flaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
20	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	28	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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** | present | Flaming | a British stand in |  |  |  | for bloody | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the flaming bus |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | nothing |  |  | fire |  |  | tree rules |

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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:13`.

**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 ×1, 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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