Soft words for hard things: money and poverty, sentence 0
Being poor can feel embarrassing, so people often talk about it with soft, roundabout words.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, feel, talk
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (people), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 poor | cop |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | csubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | embarrassing | embarrassing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 talk | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 talk | advmod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 talk | nsubj |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 talk | advmod |
| 10 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | parataxis |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 talk | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 words | case |
| 14 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 words | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 soft | punct |
| 16 | roundabout | roundabout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 words | compound |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 talk | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | poor property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | feel | can | embarrassing property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | talk | present | people | about it; with soft roundabout words; often property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic with word=Co-Agent |
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:019-money-and-poverty.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): R7-rel-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.
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