Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 11

"Thinning on top" is a polite way to say going bald.

Who acts: Thinning · What happens: thin, be, say, go · To what, where: top, polite way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Thinning), 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	_	2 Thinning	punct
2	Thinning	thin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 way	csubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 top	case
4	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Thinning	obl
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thinning	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 way	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 way	acl
12	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 say	xcomp
13	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 going	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 way	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	thin in a quote	gerund			top		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	Thinning	a polite way			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	gerund				bald property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:11.

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): R7-rel-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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