--- title: Families use soft words for things people feel shy or sad about: a h… — Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth… · tree and pragmatics description: Families use soft words for things people feel shy or sad about: a hurried wedding, where babies come from, a couple who split up. Who acts: Families, people, babies, couple. 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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 (Families, people, babies, couple), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:012-birth-and-couples.lesson:0 # text = Families use soft words for things people feel shy or sad about: a hurried wedding, where babies come from, a couple who split up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 012-birth-and-couples.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 Families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 9 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 hurried hurry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 20 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl 19 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 21 from from ADP IN _ 20 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 split split VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Families | soft words | | | | for things | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent word=Theme for thing=Eventuality | | 2 | **feel** | present | people | things *not said here* | | | | shy *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 3 | **hurry** | participle | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come** | present | babies | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **split up** | past | a couple | | | | | | vn interact-36.6 «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:012-birth-and-couples.lesson:0`. **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: pregnancy…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/23/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: pregnancy…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/)