--- title: "Expletive deleted" means a swear word was said here and has been le… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: "Expletive deleted" means a swear word was said here and has been left out of the written record. Who acts: Expletive. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/) / 15 # Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 15 "Expletive deleted" means a swear word was said here and has been left out of the written record. **Who acts:** Expletive · **What happens:** delete, mean, swear, say, leave out, write · **To what, where:** Expletive, swear word · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Expletive), 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:15 # text = "Expletive deleted" means a swear word was said here and has been left out of the written record. # 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 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Expletive expletive NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 deleted delete VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 swear swear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 compound _ _ 8 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 ccomp _ _ 11 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 record record NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **delete** *in a quote* | participle | | Expletive *not said here* | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | Expletive | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **swear** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | a swear word | | here | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | | 5 | **leave out** | present · perfect · passive | | | | | | of the written record | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP» | | 6 | **write** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:15`. **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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/14/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/)