Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 0

Job titles and adverts are full of soft words, because people want their work to sound grand and sellers want their goods to sound better than they are.

Who acts: Job titles, people, work, sellers, goods · What happens: be, want, sound, work · To what, where: work, goods

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising» 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 (Job titles, people, work, sellers), 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	Job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 titles	compound
2	titles	title	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 adverts	cc
4	adverts	advert	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 titles	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 words	case
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 want	mark
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 want	nsubj
13	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 full	advcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 work	nmod:poss
15	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 want	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sound	mark
17	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 want	xcomp
18	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sound	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 want	cc
20	sellers	seller	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 want	nsubj
21	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 want	conj
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 goods	nmod:poss
23	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	21 want	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 sound	mark
25	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 want	xcomp
26	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 sound	xcomp
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	29 are	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 are	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 better	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Job titles and adverts		of soft words; full property	tree rules
2	want	present	people	people's work		tree rules
3	sound not said to happen	to-infinitive	people's work not said here		grand property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	want	present	sellers	people's goods		tree rules
5	sound not said to happen	to-infinitive	people's goods not said here		good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	work		people			nom work «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:022-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents.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): no change. 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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