Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 0
Losing a job is painful and frightening, so bosses, newspapers and governments reach for soft words when they talk about it.
Who acts: Losing, bosses · What happens: lose, be, reach, talk · To what, where: job
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Losing, bosses), 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 | Losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 painful | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 job | det |
| 3 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Losing | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 painful | cop |
| 5 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 frightening | cc |
| 7 | frightening | frightening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 painful | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reach | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 reach | advmod |
| 10 | bosses | boss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reach | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 newspapers | punct |
| 12 | newspapers | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bosses | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 governments | cc |
| 14 | governments | government | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bosses | conj |
| 15 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 painful | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 words | case |
| 17 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 words | amod |
| 18 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reach | obl |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 talk | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 talk | nsubj |
| 21 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 reach | advcl |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 talk | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 painful | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | a job | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Losing | painful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Losing not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | reach | present | bosses and newspapers and governments | for soft words | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | talk | present | bosses = boss | about job | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
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:021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson:0.
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): R7-rel-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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