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title: "A frank exchange of views" means an angry argument; it is the langu… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics
description: "A frank exchange of views" means an angry argument; it is the language of officials and news reports. Who acts: frank exchange, exchange. 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 p
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# Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 22

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"A frank exchange of views" means an angry argument; it is the language of officials and news reports.

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**Who acts:** frank exchange, exchange · **What happens:** mean, be, exchange · **To what, where:** angry argument, language, views

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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 (frank exchange, exchange), 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:22
# text = "A frank exchange of views" means an angry argument; it is the language of officials and news reports.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	frank	frank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc
20	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **mean** | present | a frank exchange of views | a angry argument |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | exchange | the language |  |  |  | of officials and news reports | tree rules |
| 3 | **exchange** *in a quote* |  |  | views |  |  |  |  | nom exchange «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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:22`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×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/).

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