Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 18
"Distinguished" said of an older man often means grey-haired or older-looking, in a good way.
What happens: say, mean, look · 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: 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 Distinguished | punct |
| 2 | Distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Distinguished | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 means | advmod |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 haired | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 grey | punct |
| 13 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 means | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 older | cc |
| 15 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 haired | parataxis |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 looking | punct |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 haired | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 way | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 way | amod |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looking | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | of a older man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | often property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | in a good way | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=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:18.
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, R8-pos-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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