--- title: Remember that even soft words about weight can still hurt, so it is… — Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy… · tree and pragmatics description: Remember that even soft words about weight can still hurt, so it is kinder not to comment on people's bodies at all. Who acts: you, soft words. 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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 (you, soft words), 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:4 # text = Remember that even soft words about weight can still hurt, so it is kinder not to comment on people's bodies at all. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Remember remember VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 3 even even ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 4 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 kinder kind ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 1 parataxis _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 comment comment VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp 19 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remember** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **hurt** | can | soft words about weight | | | | still | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **comment** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | | | | people's bodies | | at all | vn lecture-37.11-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:4`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/3/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: weight and…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/)