Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 15
"Massaging the numbers" means changing data so it looks better than it really is.
Who acts: Massaging, data · What happens: massage, mean, change, look · To what, where: numbers, data · 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 (Massaging, data), 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 Massaging | punct |
| 2 | Massaging | massage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | csubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 numbers | det |
| 4 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Massaging | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Massaging | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | data | data | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changing | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 looks | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looks | nsubj |
| 11 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 changing | conj |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 looks | xcomp |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 is | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 is | nsubj |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 is | advmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 better | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | massage in a quote | gerund | the numbers | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Massaging | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | change not said to happen | gerund | Massaging not said here | data | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent data=Patient | ||||
| 4 | look | present | data | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:15.
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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