Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 24
"Plus-size" means large clothing sizes, for people who are fat.
Who acts: Plus size, people · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: large clothing sizes
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 (Plus size, people), 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 | _ | 4 size | punct |
| 2 | Plus | plus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 size | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Plus | punct |
| 4 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 size | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sizes | amod |
| 8 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sizes | compound |
| 9 | sizes | size | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 means | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 means | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 fat | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fat | cop |
| 15 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 people | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Plus size | large clothing sizes | for people | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot size=Theme for people=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | present | people | fat 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:24.
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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