Soft words for hard things: money and poverty, sentence 3
For example, a man who says he is "temporarily embarrassed" at the till is joking that he has run out of money.
Who acts: man · What happens: say, be, joke, run · To what, where: till, money · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 example | case |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 joking | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 example | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 joking | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 embarrassed | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 embarrassed | cop |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 embarrassed | punct |
| 11 | temporarily | temporarily | ADV | _ | 12 embarrassed | advmod |
| 12 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 says | ccomp |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 embarrassed | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 till | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 till | det |
| 16 | till | till | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 embarrassed | obl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 joking | aux |
| 18 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 run | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 run | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 run | aux |
| 22 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 joking | ccomp |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 money | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 money | case |
| 25 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 run | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 joking | 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 | say speech: assert | present | a man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | man | the till | embarrassed, temporarily property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | joke speech: other | present · progressive | a man | for example | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run | present · perfect | man | money | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out money=Trajectory |
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: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): R6-punct-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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