Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 4
Some of these words are kind or just funny, like "pulling your leg", but many hide a real lie or a real problem.
Who acts: Some, many · What happens: be, pull, hide · To what, where: leg, real lie
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 (Some, many), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | cop |
| 6 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 funny | cc |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 funny | advmod |
| 9 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pulling | punct |
| 11 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 13 pulling | mark |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 pulling | punct |
| 13 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 kind | advcl |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 leg | nmod:poss |
| 15 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulling | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 pulling | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hide | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 hide | cc |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hide | nsubj |
| 20 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lie | det |
| 22 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lie | amod |
| 23 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hide | obj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 problem | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 problem | det |
| 26 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 problem | amod |
| 27 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lie | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Some | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Some not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | pull in a quote | gerund | Some not said here | your leg | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hide | present | many | a real lie or a real problem | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Patient |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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