--- title: "Use your words" means stop hitting, screaming or whining and say wh… — Soft words for hard things: relations and family… · tree and pragmatics description: "Use your words" means stop hitting, screaming or whining and say what you want. Who acts: you, your. 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 --- [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/23/) [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/) / 23 # Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour, sentence 23 "Use your words" means stop hitting, screaming or whining and say what you want. **Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** use, mean, stop, hit, scream, whine · **To what, where:** words · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, your), 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:23 # text = "Use your words" means stop hitting, screaming or whining and say what you want. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Use use VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 nsubj _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 8 hitting hit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 screaming scream VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 conj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 whining whine VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 17 obj _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your words | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **stop** *not said to happen* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **hit** | gerund | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **whine** | gerund | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **want** | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 9 | **word** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:014-family-and-behaviour.lesson:23`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/22/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: children's…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/)