--- title: Vivid example: a star posts «it's complicated» about a relationship,… — Soft words for hard things: relations and family · tree and pragmatics description: Vivid example: a star posts «it's complicated» about a relationship, which means nobody, maybe not even the two of them, knows if they are still together. Who acts: example, relationship, Vivid example, Families. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family» of the euph --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: relations…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/) / 3 # Soft words for hard things: relations and family, sentence 3 Vivid example: a star posts «it's complicated» about a relationship, which means nobody, maybe not even the two of them, knows if they are still together. **Who acts:** example, relationship, Vivid example, Families · **What happens:** be, mean, know · **To what, where:** nobody · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (example, relationship, Vivid example, Families), 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:3 # text = Vivid example: a star posts «it's complicated» about a relationship, which means nobody, maybe not even the two of them, knows if they are still together. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Vivid vivid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 posts post NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 complicated complicated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 relationship relationship NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 22 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 28 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 still still ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 together together ADV RB _ 28 ccomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | example | | | | | complicated *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | a relationship | nobody | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Topic | | 3 | **know** | present | Vivid example star posts | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Families *= family* | | | | still | together *property* | tree rules | 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:013-relations-and-family.lesson:3`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: relations…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: relations…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/)