--- title: Parents and carers use soft words about children's bad behaviour so… — Soft words for hard things: relations and family… · tree and pragmatics description: Parents and carers use soft words about children's bad behaviour so they do not sound cross or shame the child in public. Who acts: Parents. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/0/) [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/14-family-and-behaviour/) / 0 # Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour, sentence 0 Parents and carers use soft words about children's bad behaviour so they do not sound cross or shame the child in public. **Who acts:** Parents · **What happens:** use, not sound, shame · **To what, where:** soft words, cross, child, public This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» 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 (Parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:014-family-and-behaviour.lesson:0 # text = Parents and carers use soft words about children's bad behaviour so they do not sound cross or shame the child in public. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 014-family-and-behaviour.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 carers carer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 behaviour behaviour NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 12 so so SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 17 cross cross NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 shame shame VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obj 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 public public NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Parents and carers | soft words | | | | about children's bad behaviour | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **not** **sound** | present · do-support | Parents *= parent* | cross | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cross=Theme | | 3 | **shame** | infinitive | Parents *= parent* *not said here* | the child | | public | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer | 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:014-family-and-behaviour.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 ×3, R7-rel-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…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/23/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: relations…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/)