Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 5
"Resting" means out of work, said jokingly of an actor (mostly UK).
Who acts: Resting · What happens: mean, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Resting), 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 | _ | 2 Resting | punct |
| 2 | Resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Resting | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 work | advmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 work | case |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 work | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | jokingly | jokingly | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 actor | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 actor | det |
| 13 | actor | actor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 UK | punct |
| 15 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 16 UK | advmod |
| 16 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 actor | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 UK | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Resting | of work | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | of a actor; jokingly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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:5.
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 ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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