Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 21
"Up-and-coming area" usually means a poor or run-down neighbourhood.
Who acts: coming area · What happens: come, mean · To what, where: poor neighbourhood · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (coming area), 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 | _ | 7 area | punct |
| 2 | Up | Up | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | advmod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Up | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 Up | fixed |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 and | punct |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 area | amod |
| 7 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 area | punct |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 means | advmod |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 neighbourhood | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 neighbourhood | amod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 run | cc |
| 14 | run | run | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 poor | conj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 run | punct |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 run | compound:prt |
| 17 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | 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 | come in a quote | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | coming area | a poor neighbourhood | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbourhood=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:022-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents.lesson:21.
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 ×1, 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.
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