Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 4
Shops and officials use soft words as well: "plus-size" clothes, "petite" sizes, "assisted living" and "older adults".
Who acts: Shops · What happens: use, assist · To what, where: soft words
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 (Shops), 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 | Shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 officials | cc |
| 3 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Shops | conj |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 4 use | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 as | fixed |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 size | punct |
| 11 | plus | plus | ADJ | _ | 13 size | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 plus | punct |
| 13 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 clothes | compound |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 size | punct |
| 15 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 use | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sizes | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 petite | punct |
| 18 | petite | petite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sizes | compound |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 petite | punct |
| 20 | sizes | size | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 clothes | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sizes | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 living | punct |
| 23 | assisted | assist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 living | amod |
| 24 | living | live | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 clothes | conj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 living | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 adults | cc |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 adults | punct |
| 28 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 adults | amod |
| 29 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 clothes | conj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 adults | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Shops and officials | soft words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assist in a quote | participle | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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:4.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/4/