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title: People use soft words for things about animals they find unpleasant:… — Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and… · tree and pragmatics
description: People use soft words for things about animals they find unpleasant: toilets, killing and giving pets away. Who acts: People. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty, sentence 0

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People use soft words for things about animals they find unpleasant: toilets, killing and giving pets away.

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**Who acts:** People · **What happens:** use, find, kill, give away · **To what, where:** soft words, animals, pets

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» 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 (People), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:018-pets-and-money.lesson:0
# text = People use soft words for things about animals they find unpleasant: toilets, killing and giving pets away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 018-pets-and-money.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): no change
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	toilets	toilet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
18	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | People | soft words |  |  |  | for things about animals; toilets *obl* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent word=Theme for thing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **find** | present | People | animals *not said here* |  |  |  | unpleasant *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic |
| 3 | **kill** | gerund | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **give away** | gerund | People *not said here* | pets |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent pet=Theme |

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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:018-pets-and-money.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): no change. **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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