--- title: Some are kind ("curvy", "cuddly"), some are old-fashioned ("portly",… — Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy… · tree and pragmatics description: Some are kind ("curvy", "cuddly"), some are old-fashioned ("portly", "stout"), some are jokes ("love handles", "dad bod"), and shops use labels like "husky" for boys' sizes. Who acts: Some, shops. 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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 (Some, shops), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:010-weight-and-babies.lesson:1 # text = Some are kind ("curvy", "cuddly"), some are old-fashioned ("portly", "stout"), some are jokes ("love handles", "dad bod"), and shops use labels like "husky" for boys' sizes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 010-weight-and-babies.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 curvy curvy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 cuddly cuddly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 fashioned fashioned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 portly portly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 appos _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 25 stout stout NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 31 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:det 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 34 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 handles handle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 appos _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=31:punct 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 39 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 bod bod NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 46 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 47 labels label NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 48 like like ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 " " PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 50 husky husky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 nmod _ _ 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ 52 for for ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 53 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 nmod:poss _ _ 54 ' 's PART POS _ 53 case _ _ 55 sizes size NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=50:obl 56 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Some | | | | | curvy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | | Some *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | some | | | | | fashioned *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** *speech: other* | present | some | jokes and dad bod | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **use** | present | shops | labels | | | | like husky; for boys's sizes | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent label=Theme for size=Eventuality | 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:euphemisms:010-weight-and-babies.lesson:1`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: weight and…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: weight and…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/)