--- title: "An f-bomb" means one use of the f-word, the strongest common swear… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: "An f-bomb" means one use of the f-word, the strongest common swear word; it is American slang, as in "he dropped an f-bomb". Who acts: f bomb, bomb, Ireland. 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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 (f bomb, bomb, Ireland), 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:6 # text = "An f-bomb" means one use of the f-word, the strongest common swear word; it is American slang, as in "he dropped an f-bomb". # 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 ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 f f NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 bomb bomb NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 f f NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 strongest strong ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 amod _ _ 18 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 swear swear NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 27 fixed _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 f f NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 bomb bomb NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a f bomb | one use of the f word | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | bomb | American slang | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **drop** *in a quote* | past | Ireland | a f bomb | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bomb=Theme | | 4 | **use** | | | the f word | | | | | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. 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