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title: "Cheeky monkey" means a naughty or rude child, said fondly (UK). — Soft words for hard things: relations and family… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Cheeky monkey" means a naughty or rude child, said fondly (UK). Who acts: Cheeky monkey. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour, sentence 14

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"Cheeky monkey" means a naughty or rude child, said fondly (UK).

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**Who acts:** Cheeky monkey · **What happens:** mean, say · **To what, where:** naughty child · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Cheeky monkey), 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:14
# text = "Cheeky monkey" means a naughty or rude child, said fondly (UK).
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
7	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
13	fondly	fondly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **mean** | present | Cheeky monkey | a naughty child |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | fondly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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:014-family-and-behaviour.lesson:14`.

**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, R6-punct-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/).

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