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title: "Rubenesque" means plump and attractive, after the painter Rubens, w… — Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Rubenesque" means plump and attractive, after the painter Rubens, who painted round women. Who acts: Rubenesque, painter. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth, sentence 14

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"Rubenesque" means plump and attractive, after the painter Rubens, who painted round women.

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**Who acts:** Rubenesque, painter · **What happens:** mean, paint · **To what, where:** plump, round women

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth» 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 (Rubenesque, painter), 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:14
# text = "Rubenesque" means plump and attractive, after the painter Rubens, who painted round women.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Rubenesque	rubenesque	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	plump	plump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	attractive	attractive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	Rubens	Rubens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Rubenesque | plump |  |  | after the painter |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plump=Topic |
| 2 | **paint** | past | the painter | round women |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent woman=Theme |

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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.

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**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:14`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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