Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty, sentence 3

Money words are soft too: an official says "low-income" instead of "poor", and a friend says "money's a bit tight" instead of "I'm broke".

Who acts: Money words, official, friend, money, Owners · What happens: be, say · To what, where: low income · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» 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 (Money words, official, friend, money), 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	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 words	compound
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 soft	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 soft	cop
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 soft	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 official	det
8	official	official	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 soft	parataxis
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 income	punct
11	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 income	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 low	punct
13	income	income	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 income	punct
15	instead	instead	ADV	_	18 poor	advmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 poor	case
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 poor	punct
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 says	obl
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 poor	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 says	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 says	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 friend	det
23	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 says	nsubj
24	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 soft	conj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 tight	punct
26	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tight	nsubj
27	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 tight	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bit	det
29	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tight	obl:unmarked
30	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 says	ccomp
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 tight	punct
32	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	37 broke	mark
33	of	of	ADP	_	32 instead	fixed
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 broke	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 broke	nsubj
36	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 broke	cop
37	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tight	advcl
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 broke	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 soft	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Money words		soft property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	a official	low income	of poor	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent income=Topic
3	say speech: assert	present	a friend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	money		a bit obl:unmarked; tight property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	Owners = owner		broke property	tree rules

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:018-pets-and-money.lesson:3.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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