Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 20
"Deceptively spacious" in a house advert usually means small (mostly UK).
Who acts: house advert · What happens: mean · To what, where: small
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 (house advert), 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 | _ | 3 spacious | punct |
| 2 | Deceptively | deceptively | ADV | _ | 3 spacious | advmod |
| 3 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 means | csubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 spacious | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 advert | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 advert | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 advert | compound |
| 8 | advert | advert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 means | advmod |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 means | obj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 UK | punct |
| 13 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 14 UK | advmod |
| 14 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 UK | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a house advert | small | usually property | 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:20.
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 ×2. 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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