--- title: Asking someone about their weight or guessing that someone is pregna… — Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on th… · tree and pragmatics description: Asking someone about their weight or guessing that someone is pregnant from a photo is unkind; bodies are their own business, famous or not. Who acts: someone, Asking, bodies. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone, Asking, bodies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson:12 # text = Asking someone about their weight or guessing that someone is pregnant from a photo is unkind; bodies are their own business, famous or not. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 guessing guess VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 pregnant pregnant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | someone | | | about photos's weight | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient about weight=Topic | | 2 | **guess** | gerund | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | someone | | | a photo | | pregnant *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | Asking | | | | | unkind *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | bodies | photos's own business | | | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson:12`. **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): R7-rel-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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