Soft words for hard things: money and poverty, sentence 8
"Hard up" (everyday, especially UK) means short of money.
Who acts: Hard · What happens: mean
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 (Hard), 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 | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 2 | Hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | nsubj |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 Hard | advmod |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 everyday | punct |
| 6 | everyday | everyday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hard | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 UK | punct |
| 8 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 9 UK | advmod |
| 9 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 everyday | appos |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 everyday | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 short | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | 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 | mean | present | Hard | short property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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:8.
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): 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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