Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 3

Vivid example: a friend says the new boy "has a nice personality" — that sounds like praise, but often it is a sly way to say he is not good-looking.

Who acts: Vivid example, new boy, nice personality, friend, boy · What happens: say, have, sound, be, 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 (Vivid example, new boy, nice personality, friend), 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	Vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 example	amod
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 friend	det
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	nsubj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 personality	det
13	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 personality	amod
14	personality	personality	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	obj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 personality	punct
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 sounds	punct
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 sounds	nsubj
18	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 personality	acl:relcl
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 praise	case
20	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sounds	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 way	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 way	cc
23	often	often	ADV	_	28 way	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 way	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 way	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 way	det
27	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 way	amod
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 say	mark
30	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 way	acl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 looking	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 looking	cop
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 looking	advmod
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 looking	amod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 good	punct
36	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 say	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Vivid example			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	the new boy	a nice personality		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent personality=Patient
3	sound	present	a nice personality	a nice personality not said here	like praise	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location personality=Theme
4	is a	present	friend	a sly way	often property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Vivid example not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not is	present	boy		look 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:3.

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 ×2, 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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