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title: Some words are kind, like "less fortunate"; some are polite cover, l… — Soft words for hard things: money and poverty · tree and pragmatics
description: Some words are kind, like "less fortunate"; some are polite cover, like "careful with money" for someone stingy. Who acts: words, some. 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 pragmati
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# Soft words for hard things: money and poverty, sentence 2

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Some words are kind, like "less fortunate"; some are polite cover, like "careful with money" for someone stingy.

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**Who acts:** words, some · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** polite cover

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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 (words, some), 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:2
# text = Some words are kind, like "less fortunate"; some are polite cover, like "careful with money" for someone stingy.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
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	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:det
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	appos	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	stingy	stingy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | some words |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | some | polite cover |  |  |  | for stingy | tree rules |

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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:2`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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