--- title: People also apologise for their own swearing with a joke: "Pardon my… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: People also apologise for their own swearing with a joke: "Pardon my French!" pretends the rude word was a foreign one. Who acts: People, rude word. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, rude word), 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:4 # text = People also apologise for their own swearing with a joke: "Pardon my French!" pretends the rude word was a foreign one. # 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 ×3 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 apologise apologise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 swearing swearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Pardon pardon VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 18 pretends pretend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 ccomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | present | People | | | | | for People's own swearing with a joke | tree rules | | 2 | **pardon** *in a quote* | infinitive | People *not said here* | my French | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent french=Theme | | 3 | **pretend** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | past | the rude word | a foreign one | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **swear** | | People | | | | | with a joke | nom swearing «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl | 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:4`. **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 ×3. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/3/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/)