--- title: "The two-fingered salute" is a jokey British name for the rude V-sig… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: "The two-fingered salute" is a jokey British name for the rude V-sign made with two fingers, palm turned inwards. Who acts: fingered salute, palm. 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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 (fingered salute, palm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:10 # text = "The two-fingered salute" is a jokey British name for the rude V-sign made with two fingers, palm turned inwards. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 040-with-all-due-respect.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 ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nummod 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 fingered finger VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 salute salute NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 jokey jokey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 16 V v NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 19 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 26 inwards inwards ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finger** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the fingered salute | a jokey British name | | | | for the rude V sign | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | participle | | the rude V sign *not said here* | | | | with two fingers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **turn** | participle | palm | the rude V sign *not said here* | | | | inwards *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sign=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:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:10`. **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 ×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…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/9/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/)