--- title: Money words are soft too: an official says "low-income" instead of "… — Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and… · tree and pragmatics description: Money words are soft too: an official says "low-income" instead of "poor", and a friend says "money's a bit tight" instead of "I'm broke". Who acts: Money words, official, friend, money. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Money words, official, friend, money), 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:3 # text = Money words are soft too: an official says "low-income" instead of "poor", and a friend says "money's a bit tight" instead of "I'm broke". # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 official official NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 income income NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nsubj 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 instead instead ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:ccomp 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 26 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 ccomp _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 32 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 37 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:case 33 of of ADP IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 broke broke ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:parataxis 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Money words | | | | | soft *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a official | low income | | | | of poor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent income=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a friend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | money | | | | | a bit *obl:unmarked*; tight *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Owners *= owner* | | | | | broke *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:018-pets-and-money.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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: animals an…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/2/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: animals an…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/)