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title: To understand polite rudeness, ignore the kind words and listen for… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics
description: To understand polite rudeness, ignore the kind words and listen for what comes after them and how it is said. Who acts: 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 e
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# Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 6

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To understand polite rudeness, ignore the kind words and listen for what comes after them and how it is said.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** understand, ignore, listen, come, say · **To what, where:** polite rudeness, kind words, rudeness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:6
# text = To understand polite rudeness, ignore the kind words and listen for what comes after them and how it is said.
# 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	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
3	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rudeness	rudeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
14	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | polite rudeness |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer rudeness=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ignore** | imperative | you *not said here* | the kind words |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 3 | **listen** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | present |  |  |  |  | after words *= word* |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | rudeness |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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:6`.

**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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