--- title: Office emails have their own polite rudeness: "per my last email" me… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: Office emails have their own polite rudeness: "per my last email" means "you did not read what I already wrote", and news reports call a shouting match "a frank exchange of views". Who acts: Office emails, you, Grown ups, news reports. 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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 (Office emails, you, Grown ups, news reports), 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:4 # text = Office emails have their own polite rudeness: "per my last email" means "you did not read what I already wrote", and news reports call a shouting match "a frank exchange of views". # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 emails email NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 rudeness rudeness NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 10 per per ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 email email NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 21 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 20 obj _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 already already ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 reports report NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 shouting shouting NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 frank frank ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 exchange exchange NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 views view NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Office emails | emails's own polite rudeness | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rudeness=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | per my last email | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **read** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 4 | **write** *in a quote* | past | Grown ups *= up* | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **call** | present | news reports | a shouting match | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme exchange=Result | | 6 | **email** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom email «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **exchange** *in a quote* | | | views | | | | | nom exchange «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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:4`. **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, R8-pos-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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/3/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/)