--- title: "I hear what you're saying" often means "I disagree and I will not c… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: "I hear what you're saying" often means "I disagree and I will not change my mind"; it is British and polite. Who acts: British way, you, mind, my. 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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 (British way, you, mind, my), 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:14 # text = "I hear what you're saying" often means "I disagree and I will not change my mind"; it is British and polite. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:csubj 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 obj _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 9 often often ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** *in a quote* | present | a British way *= way* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **disagree** *in a quote* | present | a British way *= way* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **change** *in a quote* | future | a British way *= way* | my mind | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 6 | **is** | present | mind | | | | | british *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | mind *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **mind** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:14`. **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 ×2, 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…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/13/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/)