Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 3

A famous British example: newspapers wrote that a politician was "tired and emotional" when they meant he was drunk and could not say so.

Who acts: newspapers, politician, he · What happens: write, be, mean, not say · 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 (newspapers, politician, he), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 example	det
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 example	amod
3	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 example	amod
4	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 wrote	punct
6	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wrote	nsubj
7	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 example	parataxis
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 tired	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 politician	det
10	politician	politician	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tired	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tired	cop
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tired	punct
13	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wrote	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 emotional	cc
15	emotional	emotional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tired	conj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tired	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 meant	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 meant	nsubj
19	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wrote	advcl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 drunk	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 drunk	cop
22	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 meant	ccomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 say	cc
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 say	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 say	advmod
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 meant	conj
27	so	so	ADV	_	26 say	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 example	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	write	past	newspapers		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	a politician	tired property	tree rules
3	be in a quote		a politician not said here		tree rules
4	mean	past	newspapers = newspaper		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	he	drunk property	tree rules
6	not say speech: assert	could	newspapers = newspaper not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:3.

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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