Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 16
"A face for radio" is a joking, unkind way to say someone is ugly.
Who acts: face · What happens: joke, be, say · To what, where: joking unkind way, someone · 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 (face), 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 | _ | 3 face | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 face | det |
| 3 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 way | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 radio | case |
| 5 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 face | nmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 face | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 way | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 9 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 way | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 joking | punct |
| 11 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 way | acl |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 say | obj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ugly | cop |
| 17 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 say | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | gerund | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a face for radio | a joking unkind way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | someone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent someone=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | present | ugly property | tree rules |
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:16.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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