Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 1
Some are jokes ("domestic engineer" for someone who runs the home), some are polite, and many are sales spin.
Who acts: Some, many · What happens: be, run · To what, where: jokes, home, sales spin
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 (Some, many), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 jokes | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 jokes | cop |
| 3 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 engineer | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 engineer | punct |
| 6 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 engineer | amod |
| 7 | engineer | engineer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jokes | appos |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 engineer | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 someone | case |
| 10 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 engineer | nmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 runs | nsubj |
| 12 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 someone | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 home | det |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 runs | obj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 engineer | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 polite | punct |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 polite | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 polite | cop |
| 19 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 engineer | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 spin | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 spin | cc |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 spin | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 spin | cop |
| 24 | sales | sale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 spin | compound |
| 25 | spin | spin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 polite | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jokes | 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 | is a | present | Some | jokes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | present | the home | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme home=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | is | present | some | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | many | sales spin | tree rules |
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:1.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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