Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 4
The trick is to turn each soft word back into the plain one and see what is left.
Who acts: trick · What happens: be, see, leave · 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 (trick), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 trick | det |
| 2 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 turn | mark |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 word | det |
| 7 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 word | amod |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 turn | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 turn | conj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 left | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 left | aux:pass |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 see | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the trick | into the plain one; turn property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | the trick not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | leave | present · passive | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:4.
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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