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title: "Well-upholstered" is a joking British way to say fat, as if the per… — Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well-upholstered" is a joking British way to say fat, as if the person were a padded sofa. Who acts: fat, person. 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 pragmatics of ev
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# Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth, sentence 17

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"Well-upholstered" is a joking British way to say fat, as if the person were a padded sofa.

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**Who acts:** fat, person · **What happens:** upholster, joke, be, say, padded · **To what, where:** joking British way, padded sofa · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (fat, person), 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:17
# text = "Well-upholstered" is a joking British way to say fat, as if the person were a padded sofa.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	upholstered	upholster	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
9	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	padded	padded	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
22	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **upholster** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a joking British way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | fat |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **padded** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | past | the person | a padded sofa |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:17`.

**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, 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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