--- title: "Pardon my French" means "excuse my swearing"; the rude word was Eng… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: "Pardon my French" means "excuse my swearing"; the rude word was English, not French. Who acts: rude word, my. 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. --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 17 "Pardon my French" means "excuse my swearing"; the rude word was English, not French. **Who acts:** rude word, my · **What happens:** pardon, mean, excuse, be, not be, swear · **To what, where:** French, swearing · **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 (rude word, my), 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:17 # text = "Pardon my French" means "excuse my swearing"; the rude word was English, not French. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Pardon pardon VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 3 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 excuse excuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp 9 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 swearing swearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pardon** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my French | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent french=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **excuse** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my swearing | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swearing=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | the rude word | | | | | english *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **be** | | the rude word *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **swear** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom swearing «communication intransitive»: poss=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:17`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/16/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/)