Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 23
"Full of character" in a house advert often means old and needing repairs.
Who acts: Full · What happens: mean, need · To what, where: repairs
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 (Full), 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 Full | punct |
| 2 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 character | case |
| 4 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Full | obl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 character | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 advert | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 advert | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 advert | compound |
| 9 | advert | advert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Full | obl |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 means | advmod |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 needing | cc |
| 14 | needing | need | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 old | conj |
| 15 | repairs | repair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 needing | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 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 | Full | often, old property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | need | gerund | Full not said here | repairs | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot repair=Theme |
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:23.
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, R7-rel-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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