Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 4
For example, "We are streamlining the team" from a manager usually means some people are about to lose their jobs.
Who acts: We, people · What happens: streamline, mean, be, job · To what, where: team, manager · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» 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 (We, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 example | case |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 streamlining | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 example | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 streamlining | punct |
| 5 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 streamlining | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 streamlining | aux |
| 7 | streamlining | streamline | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 team | det |
| 9 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 streamlining | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 streamlining | punct |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 manager | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 manager | det |
| 13 | manager | manager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 streamlining | obl |
| 14 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 means | advmod |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 streamlining | parataxis |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lose | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 lose | cop |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 lose | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 lose | mark |
| 21 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 means | ccomp |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 jobs | nmod:poss |
| 23 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lose | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | streamline in a quote | present · progressive | We | the team | a manager | for example | tree rules | ||
| 2 | mean | present | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | present | some people | about, lose property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | job | people | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:020-debt-and-jobs.lesson:4.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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