Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 0
Calling someone a liar or a drunk is rude, so people reach for softer words.
Who acts: Calling, people · What happens: call, be, reach · To what, where: someone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» 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 (Calling, people), 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 | Calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 rude | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Calling | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 liar | det |
| 4 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Calling | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 drunk | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 drunk | det |
| 7 | drunk | drunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 liar | conj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rude | cop |
| 9 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reach | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 reach | advmod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 reach | nsubj |
| 13 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rude | parataxis |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 words | case |
| 15 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 words | amod |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 reach | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rude | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | someone | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme liar=Result | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Calling | rude property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | present | people | for softer words | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:029-lying-and-drinking.lesson:0.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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