--- title: Vivid example: in the supermarket a toddler lies on the floor kickin… — Soft words for hard things: relations and family… · tree and pragmatics description: Vivid example: in the supermarket a toddler lies on the floor kicking and yelling, and his mum smiles at the cashier: «Sorry, he's a bit overexcited.» Who acts: toddler, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» of the euphemisms course --- [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/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/14-family-and-behaviour/) / 3 # Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour, sentence 3 Vivid example: in the supermarket a toddler lies on the floor kicking and yelling, and his mum smiles at the cashier: «Sorry, he's a bit overexcited.» **Who acts:** toddler, mum · **What happens:** lie, kick, yell, smile, be · **To what, where:** supermarket, cashier · **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 (toddler, mum), 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:3 # text = Vivid example: in the supermarket a toddler lies on the floor kicking and yelling, and his mum smiles at the cashier: «Sorry, he's a bit overexcited.» # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Vivid vivid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 supermarket supermarket NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 toddler toddler NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:acl:relcl 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 kicking kick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 yelling yell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 smiles smile VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 cashier cashier NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Sorry sorry INTJ UH _ 32 discourse _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 29 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 overexcited overexcite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | a toddler | | | the supermarket | | on the floor | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in supermarket=Location | | 2 | **kick** | gerund | a toddler *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **yell** *speech: express* | gerund | a toddler *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **smile** | present | toddler's mum | | | the cashier | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | toddler | | | | | a bit *obl:unmarked*; overexcite *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:014-family-and-behaviour.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, 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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: relations…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/)