Soft words for hard things: relations and family, sentence 0

Families are complicated, and people use soft words so they do not have to explain quarrels, divorces or who lives with whom.

Who acts: Families, people, quarrels · What happens: be, use, not have, explain, live · To what, where: soft words, quarrels

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family» 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 (Families, people, quarrels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 complicated	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 complicated	cop
3	complicated	complicated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 use	cc
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 use	nsubj
7	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 complicated	conj
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 use	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 have	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 have	advmod
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 use	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 explain	mark
16	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	xcomp
17	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 explain	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 divorces	punct
19	divorces	divorce	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 quarrels	conj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 lives	cc
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	22 lives	nsubj
22	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 quarrels	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 whom	case
24	whom	whom	PRON	Case=Acc PronType=Int	22 lives	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 complicated	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Families		complicated property	tree rules
2	use	present	people	soft words		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
3	not have	present · do-support	people			tree rules
4	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive	people not said here	quarrels and divorces		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Topic
5	live	present	quarrels and divorces		with quarrels and divorces	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with whom=Location

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, 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:013-relations-and-family.lesson:0.

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.

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