Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 5
"Well-preserved" is a cheeky way to say someone is old but still looks good.
Who acts: someone · What happens: preserve, be, say, look · To what, where: cheeky 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 (someone), 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 preserved | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 preserved | discourse |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 way | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 preserved | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 8 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 way | acl |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 old | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 old | cop |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 say | ccomp |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 looks | cc |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 looks | advmod |
| 17 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 old | conj |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 looks | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preserve in a quote | participle | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a cheeky way | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | someone | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look | present | someone not said here | still | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:5.
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 ×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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