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title: "Economically disadvantaged" (official) means poor. — Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Economically disadvantaged" (official) means poor. Who acts: official. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty, sentence 20

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"Economically disadvantaged" (official) means poor.

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**Who acts:** official · **What happens:** mean

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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 (official), 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:20
# text = "Economically disadvantaged" (official) means poor.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Economically	economically	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	disadvantaged	disadvantaged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	csubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
6	official	official	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | official |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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 ×2, 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.

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