Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 15
"Plain" said about a person's looks means not attractive.
Who acts: Plain · What happens: say, mean · 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 (Plain), 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 Plain | punct |
| 2 | Plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Plain | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Plain | acl |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 looks | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looks | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 person | case |
| 9 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | obl |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 attractive | advmod |
| 12 | attractive | attractive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 means | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Plain not said here | about a person's looks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Plain | attractive property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:15.
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. 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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