Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 1
Kind words soften the truth: wrinkles become "laughter lines" and a balding man is "thinning on top".
Who acts: Kind words, wrinkles, balding man · What happens: soften, become, bald, thin · To what, where: truth, laughter lines, top
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 (Kind words, wrinkles, balding man), 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 | Kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 words | amod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 soften | nsubj |
| 3 | soften | soften | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 soften | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 become | punct |
| 7 | wrinkles | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 become | nsubj |
| 8 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 soften | parataxis |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 lines | punct |
| 10 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lines | compound |
| 11 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 become | xcomp |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 lines | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thinning | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | balding | bald | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thinning | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 thinning | aux |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 thinning | punct |
| 19 | thinning | thin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 become | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 top | case |
| 21 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thinning | obl |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 thinning | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 soften | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soften | present | Kind words | the truth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent truth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | become | present | wrinkles | laughter lines | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bald | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | thin in a quote | present · progressive | a balding man | top | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:009-age-looks-and-size.lesson:1.
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, R7-rel-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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