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title: Being poor can feel embarrassing, so people often talk about it with… — Soft words for hard things: money and poverty · tree and pragmatics
description: Being poor can feel embarrassing, so people often talk about it with soft, roundabout words. Who acts: people. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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: money and poverty, sentence 0

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Being poor can feel embarrassing, so people often talk about it with soft, roundabout words.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** be, feel, talk

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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:019-money-and-poverty.lesson:0
# text = Being poor can feel embarrassing, so people often talk about it with soft, roundabout words.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 019-money-and-poverty.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
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	csubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	roundabout	roundabout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | can |  |  |  |  |  | embarrassing *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **talk** | present | people |  |  |  |  | about it; with soft roundabout words; often *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic with word=Co-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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**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:019-money-and-poverty.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): 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/).

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