Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 2

Jokes do it too, but jokes can sting: "a face for radio" says someone is ugly, because on radio nobody sees your face.

Who acts: Jokes, face, someone, nobody · What happens: do, sting, say, be, see · To what, where: truth, face, radio · 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 (Jokes, face, someone, nobody), 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	Jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 do	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 do	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sting	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 sting	cc
7	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sting	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sting	aux
9	sting	sting	VERB	_	2 do	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 face	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 face	det
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 says	nsubj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 radio	case
15	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 face	nmod
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 face	punct
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sting	parataxis
18	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 ugly	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ugly	cop
20	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 says	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sees	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 sees	mark
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 radio	case
24	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sees	obl
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 sees	nsubj
26	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 says	advcl
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 face	nmod:poss
28	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sees	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 do	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present	Jokes	truth			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	sting	can	jokes				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	present	a face for radio				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	someone			ugly property	tree rules
5	see	present	nobody	your face	radio		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus

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:2.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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