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title: "Drat", "blast", "sugar", "fudge" and "darn" are mild stand-ins for… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: "Drat", "blast", "sugar", "fudge" and "darn" are mild stand-ins for swear words. Who acts: Drat. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 15

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"Drat", "blast", "sugar", "fudge" and "darn" are mild stand-ins for swear words.

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**Who acts:** Drat · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mild stand ins

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» 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 (Drat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:15
# text = "Drat", "blast", "sugar", "fudge" and "darn" are mild stand-ins for swear words.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Drat	Drat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
6	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
10	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
14	fudge	fudge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	darn	darn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	ins	in	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	swear	swear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- 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 | **is a** | present | Drat and blast and sugar and fudge and darn | mild stand ins |  |  |  | for swear words | 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:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:15`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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