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title: For example, a man who says he is "temporarily embarrassed" at the t… — Soft words for hard things: money and poverty · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, a man who says he is "temporarily embarrassed" at the till is joking that he has run out of money. Who acts: man. 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 eve
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# Soft words for hard things: money and poverty, sentence 3

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For example, a man who says he is "temporarily embarrassed" at the till is joking that he has run out of money.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** say, be, joke, run · **To what, where:** till, money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (man), 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:3
# text = For example, a man who says he is "temporarily embarrassed" at the till is joking that he has run out of money.
# 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
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	temporarily	temporarily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	till	till	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	ccomp	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | man |  |  | the till |  | embarrassed, temporarily *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **joke** *speech: other* | present · progressive | a man |  |  |  |  | for example | tree rules |
| 4 | **run** | present · perfect | man |  |  | money |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out money=Trajectory |

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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: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): R6-punct-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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