--- title: "I'll bear it in mind" often means "I will ignore what you just said… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: "I'll bear it in mind" often means "I will ignore what you just said"; it is polite British speech. Who acts: offence, you, mind. 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 --- [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/21/) [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/) / 21 # Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 21 "I'll bear it in mind" often means "I will ignore what you just said"; it is polite British speech. **Who acts:** offence, you, mind · **What happens:** bear, mean, ignore, say, be · **To what, where:** mind, polite British speech · **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 (offence, you, mind), 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:21 # text = "I'll bear it in mind" often means "I will ignore what you just said"; it is polite British speech. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:csubj 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 `` _ 14 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 ignore ignore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 obj _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 just just ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** *in a quote* | future | no offence *= offence* | mind | | mind | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **ignore** *in a quote* | future | no offence *= offence* | | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | mind | polite British speech | | | | | 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:21`. **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 ×3, 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…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/20/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/)