--- title: "Told someone where to go" means told someone very rudely to go away. — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: "Told someone where to go" means told someone very rudely to go away. 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/24/) [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/) / 24 # Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 24 "Told someone where to go" means told someone very rudely to go away. **What happens:** tell, go, mean, go away · **To what, where:** someone · **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: 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:24 # text = "Told someone where to go" means told someone very rudely to go away. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj 3 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 6 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:acl:relcl 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 iobj _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 rudely rudely ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl 15 away away ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | | someone | | | rudely *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: someone=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **go away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:24`. **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): R5-strong ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/23/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/)