--- title: "Per my last email" means "you did not read my email properly"; it i… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: "Per my last email" means "you did not read my email properly"; it is office jargon. Who acts: you, palm, my. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/) / 18 # Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 18 "Per my last email" means "you did not read my email properly"; it is office jargon. **Who acts:** you, palm, my · **What happens:** mean, not read, be, email · **To what, where:** email, office jargon · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, palm, 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:18 # text = "Per my last email" means "you did not read my email properly"; it is office jargon. # 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 `` _ 7 punct _ _ 2 Per per ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 email email NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 email email NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 properly properly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 jargon jargon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | per my last email | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **read** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you | my email | | | | properly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent email=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | present | palm | office jargon | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **email** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom email «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 5 | **email** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom email «communication 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:18`. **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…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/17/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/)