--- title: "Shut the front door!" is an American jokey cry of surprise, a clean… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: "Shut the front door!" is an American jokey cry of surprise, a cleaned-up form of a ruder phrase; it has nothing to do with doors. Who acts: door. 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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 (door), 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:11 # text = "Shut the front door!" is an American jokey cry of surprise, a cleaned-up form of a ruder phrase; it has nothing to do with doors. # 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): R4-particle ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Shut shut VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 jokey jokey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 cleaned clean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=17:compound 20 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 ruder rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 24 phrase phrase NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:acl:relcl 28 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 27 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shut** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the front door | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | | 2 | **be** *speech: express* | present | | a American jokey cry and a cleaned form of a ruder phrase | | | | of surprise | tree rules | | 3 | **clean up** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **have** | present | door | nothing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | door *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | | | | with doors | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **form** | | | a ruder phrase | | | | | nom form «communication 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:euphemisms:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:11`. **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): R4-particle ×1, 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…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/10/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/)