Soft words for hard things: money and poverty, sentence 10
"Temporarily embarrassed" is an old-fashioned joke meaning out of money for now.
Who acts: embarrassed fashioned joke · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: embarrassed fashioned joke, money
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 (embarrassed fashioned joke), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 embarrassed | punct |
| 2 | Temporarily | temporarily | ADV | _ | 3 embarrassed | advmod |
| 3 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 joke | amod |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 embarrassed | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 joke | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 joke | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fashioned | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| 9 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 joke | amod |
| 10 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 joke | acl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 meaning | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 now | case |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 meaning | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 joke | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a embarrassed fashioned joke | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | a embarrassed fashioned joke not said here | money | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for now=Attribute |
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:10.
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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