Soft words for hard things: money and poverty, sentence 2
Some words are kind, like "less fortunate"; some are polite cover, like "careful with money" for someone stingy.
Who acts: words, some · What happens: be · To what, where: polite cover
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 (words, some), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | cop |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 fortunate | case |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fortunate | punct |
| 8 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 fortunate | advmod |
| 9 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kind | ccomp |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fortunate | punct |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 cover | punct |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 cover | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cover | cop |
| 14 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cover | amod |
| 15 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 careful | punct |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 careful | case |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 careful | punct |
| 19 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cover | appos |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 money | case |
| 21 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 careful | obl |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 careful | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 stingy | case |
| 24 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 stingy | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | stingy | stingy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cover | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some words | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | some | polite cover | for stingy | 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:019-money-and-poverty.lesson:2.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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