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title: "Big-boned" is an everyday soft way to say fat; bones are rarely the… — Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Big-boned" is an everyday soft way to say fat; bones are rarely the real reason. Who acts: fat, bones. 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 every clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth, sentence 5

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"Big-boned" is an everyday soft way to say fat; bones are rarely the real reason.

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**Who acts:** fat, bones · **What happens:** bone, be, say · **To what, where:** everyday soft way, real reason · **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, bones), 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:5
# text = "Big-boned" is an everyday soft way to say fat; bones are rarely the real reason.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	boned	bone	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	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	soft	soft	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	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **bone** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a everyday soft way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | fat |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | bones | the real reason |  |  |  | rarely *property* | 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:5`.

**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 ×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/).

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