--- title: And there are the softened swear words themselves: "ruddy", "bloomin… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: And there are the softened swear words themselves: "ruddy", "bloomin'" and "flaming" for "bloody", "feck" in Ireland for the f-word, and "fiddlesticks" or "bother" from grannies who never swear at all. Who acts: softened swear words, grannies. 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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 (softened swear words, grannies), 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:5 # text = And there are the softened swear words themselves: "ruddy", "bloomin'" and "flaming" for "bloody", "feck" in Ireland for the f-word, and "fiddlesticks" or "bother" from grannies who never swear at all. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 softened soften VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 6 swear swear NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 8 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 7 nmod:unmarked _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 ruddy ruddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 appos _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 bloomin bloomin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:appos 16 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 flaming flaming NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 bloody bloody ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 feck feck NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl 32 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 f f NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 36 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 40 fiddlesticks fiddlestick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 44 bother bother NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 46 from from ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 grannies grannie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ _ 48 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 50 nsubj _ _ 49 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 50 advmod _ _ 50 swear swear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 acl:relcl _ _ 51 at at ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 50 obl _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | the softened swear words words | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **soften** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **not** **swear** | present | grannies | | | all | | | 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:5`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/4/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/)