Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 25
"Interesting choice" said about clothes, food or a decision usually means "a bad choice".
Who acts: Interesting choice · What happens: say, mean · To what, where: bad choice · 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 (Interesting choice), 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 choice | punct |
| 2 | Interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 choice | amod |
| 3 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 choice | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 choice | acl |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 clothes | case |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 food | punct |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clothes | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 means | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 decision | det |
| 12 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clothes | conj |
| 13 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 14 means | advmod |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 choice | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 choice | det |
| 17 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 choice | amod |
| 18 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | obj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 choice | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Interesting choice not said here | about clothes and food and a decision | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Interesting choice | a bad choice | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=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:25.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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