Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 13
"Being diplomatic" means not saying what you really think, to avoid hurting or angering someone.
Who acts: diplomatic, you · What happens: be, mean, not say, think, avoid, hurt · 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 (diplomatic, you), 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 diplomatic | punct |
| 2 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 diplomatic | cop |
| 3 | diplomatic | diplomatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 diplomatic | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 saying | advmod |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 means | xcomp |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 think | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 think | nsubj |
| 10 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 think | advmod |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 saying | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 avoid | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 avoid | mark |
| 14 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 saying | advcl |
| 15 | hurting | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 avoid | xcomp |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 angering | cc |
| 17 | angering | anger | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 hurting | conj |
| 18 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 angering | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | gerund | diplomatic property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | diplomatic | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert not said to happen | gerund | diplomatic not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | infinitive | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 5 | avoid | to-infinitive | diplomatic not said here | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | hurt | gerund | diplomatic not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | anger | gerund | diplomatic not said here | someone | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer |
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:13.
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, 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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