Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 0
People are sensitive about how they look: wrinkles, baldness, being short or not pretty, or getting forgetful with age.
Who acts: People · What happens: be, look, not be, get · To what, where: wrinkles
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight» 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), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sensitive | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sensitive | cop |
| 3 | sensitive | sensitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 look | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 look | nsubj |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sensitive | advcl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 wrinkles | punct |
| 9 | wrinkles | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 look | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 baldness | punct |
| 11 | baldness | baldness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrinkles | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 short | punct |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 short | cop |
| 14 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wrinkles | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 pretty | cc |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 pretty | advmod |
| 17 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 short | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 getting | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 getting | cc |
| 20 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sensitive | parataxis |
| 21 | forgetful | forgetful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 getting | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 age | case |
| 23 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 getting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sensitive | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | People | sensitive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | present | People | wrinkles and baldness | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wrinkle=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | People not said here | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not be | People not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | get | gerund | with age | forgetful property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:009-age-looks-and-size.lesson:0.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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