Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 14
"Homely" in American English means plain or not pretty; in British English it means cosy and home-like.
Who acts: Homely, way · What happens: mean · To what, where: plain
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 (Homely, way), 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 Homely | punct |
| 2 | Homely | homely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Homely | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 English | case |
| 5 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 English | amod |
| 6 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 pretty | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 pretty | advmod |
| 11 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 plain | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 means | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 English | case |
| 14 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 English | amod |
| 15 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 means | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 means | nsubj |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | parataxis |
| 18 | cosy | cosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 means | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 home | cc |
| 20 | home | home | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cosy | conj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 home | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cosy | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Homely | plain | in American English | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot plain=Theme in english=Attribute | |||
| 2 | mean | present | way | in British English; cosy property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in english=Attribute |
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:14.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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