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title: "Temporarily embarrassed" is an old-fashioned joke meaning out of mo… — Soft words for hard things: money and poverty · tree and pragmatics
description: "Temporarily embarrassed" is an old-fashioned joke meaning out of money for now. Who acts: embarrassed fashioned joke. 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 claus
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# Soft words for hard things: money and poverty, sentence 10

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"Temporarily embarrassed" is an old-fashioned joke meaning out of money for now.

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**Who acts:** embarrassed fashioned joke · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** embarrassed fashioned joke, money

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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 (embarrassed fashioned joke), 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:10
# text = "Temporarily embarrassed" is an old-fashioned joke meaning out of money for now.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Temporarily	temporarily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is a** | present |  | a embarrassed fashioned joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund | a embarrassed fashioned joke *not said here* |  |  | money |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for now=Attribute |

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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:10`.

**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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