Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 17

"Has a nice personality" is often a sly way to say someone is not attractive.

Who acts: someone · What happens: have, be, say, not be · To what, where: nice personality, sly 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 (someone), 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 Has	punct
2	Has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 way	csubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 personality	det
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 personality	amod
5	personality	personality	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Has	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 personality	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 way	cop
8	often	often	ADV	_	11 way	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 way	acl
14	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 attractive	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 attractive	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 attractive	advmod
17	attractive	attractive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 say	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 way	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present		a nice personality		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent personality=Patient
2	is a	present		a sly way	often property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is	present	someone		attractive 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:17.

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): no change. 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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