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title: "With all due respect" sounds respectful, but it nearly always comes… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics
description: "With all due respect" sounds respectful, but it nearly always comes just before "you are wrong". Who acts: respect, you. 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 ever
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# Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 2

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"With all due respect" sounds respectful, but it nearly always comes just before "you are wrong".

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**Who acts:** respect, you · **What happens:** sound, come, be

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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 (respect, you), 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:2
# text = "With all due respect" sounds respectful, but it nearly always comes just before "you are wrong".
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
2	With	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	respectful	respectful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
14	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with all due respect; respectful *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with respect=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present | respect |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:2`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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