Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 24
"Not a people person" means unfriendly or rude to others; it is said kindly.
Who acts: people person · What happens: mean, say · To what, where: person · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» 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 (people person), 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 | _ | 5 person | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 person | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 person | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 person | compound |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 person | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | unfriendly | unfriendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | xcomp |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 rude | cc |
| 10 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 unfriendly | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 others | case |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 unfriendly | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | aux:pass |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 means | conj |
| 17 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 16 said | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | mean | present | a people person | unfriendly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · passive | person | kindly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:24.
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): 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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