--- title: Job titles and adverts are full of soft words, because people want t… — Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Job titles and adverts are full of soft words, because people want their work to sound grand and sellers want their goods to sound better than they are. Who acts: Job titles, people, work, sellers. 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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 (Job titles, people, work, sellers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:022-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents.lesson:0 # text = Job titles and adverts are full of soft words, because people want their work to sound grand and sellers want their goods to sound better than they are. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 022-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents.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 Job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 titles title NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 adverts advert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 18 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 sellers seller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 21 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 26 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 xcomp _ _ 27 than than SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Job titles and adverts | | | | | of soft words; full *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **want** | present | people | people's work | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sound** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people's work *not said here* | | | | | grand *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **want** | present | sellers | people's goods | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sound** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people's goods *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **work** | | people | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:022-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: work, firi…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/24/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: work, firi…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/)