--- title: "Excuse my language" is a polite way of saying "sorry for swearing". — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: "Excuse my language" is a polite way of saying "sorry for swearing". Who acts: polite way. 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/18/) [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/) / 18 # Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 18 "Excuse my language" is a polite way of saying "sorry for swearing". **Who acts:** polite way · **What happens:** excuse, be, say, swear · **To what, where:** language, polite way · **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 (polite way), 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:18 # text = "Excuse my language" is a polite way of saying "sorry for swearing". # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Excuse excuse VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 nsubj _ _ 3 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 of of SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 13 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ _ 14 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 swearing swear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **excuse** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my language | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a polite way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a polite way *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **swear** *in a quote* | gerund | a polite way *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: 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:18`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/17/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/)