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title: "Underprivileged" means poor and without the advantages most people… — Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Underprivileged" means poor and without the advantages most people have. Who acts: Underprivileged, most 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 the pragmatic
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# Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty, sentence 21

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"Underprivileged" means poor and without the advantages most people have.

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**Who acts:** Underprivileged, most people · **What happens:** mean, have · **To what, where:** poor, advantages

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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 (Underprivileged, most 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:21
# text = "Underprivileged" means poor and without the advantages most people have.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Underprivileged	Underprivileged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	advantages	advantage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | Underprivileged | poor and the advantages |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present | most people | the advantages *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Patient |

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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:21`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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