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title: Families are complicated, and people use soft words so they do not h… — Soft words for hard things: relations and family · tree and pragmatics
description: Families are complicated, and people use soft words so they do not have to explain quarrels, divorces or who lives with whom. Who acts: Families, people, quarrels. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Soft words for hard things: relations and family, sentence 0

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Families are complicated, and people use soft words so they do not have to explain quarrels, divorces or who lives with whom.

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**Who acts:** Families, people, quarrels · **What happens:** be, use, not have, explain, live · **To what, where:** soft words, quarrels

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family» 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 (Families, people, quarrels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:013-relations-and-family.lesson:0
# text = Families are complicated, and people use soft words so they do not have to explain quarrels, divorces or who lives with whom.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 013-relations-and-family.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): no change
1	Families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	complicated	complicated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	divorces	divorce	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	Case=Acc|PronType=Int	22	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Families |  |  |  |  | complicated *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | people | soft words |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | quarrels and divorces |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Topic |
| 5 | **live** | present | quarrels and divorces |  |  |  |  | with quarrels and divorces | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with whom=Location |

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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:013-relations-and-family.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): no change. **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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