--- title: "With the greatest respect" usually means "I think you are quite wro… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: "With the greatest respect" usually means "I think you are quite wrong"; in British speech it can mean "you are a fool". Who acts: I, you, it. 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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 (I, you, it), 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:13 # text = "With the greatest respect" usually means "I think you are quite wrong"; in British speech it can mean "you are a fool". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 2 With with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 usually usually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 quite quite ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 ccomp _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - hedged: yes - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | with the greatest respect; usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | can | it | | | | | in British speech | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in speech=Attribute | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | a fool | | | | | tree rules | 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:13`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/12/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/)