--- title: Some are jokes ("domestic engineer" for someone who runs the home),… — Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Some are jokes ("domestic engineer" for someone who runs the home), some are polite, and many are sales spin. Who acts: Some, many. 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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 (Some, many), 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:1 # text = Some are jokes ("domestic engineer" for someone who runs the home), some are polite, and many are sales spin. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 domestic domestic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 engineer engineer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nmod _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 19 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJ:PronType=Ind 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 sales sale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 compound _ _ 25 spin spin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Some | jokes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **run** | present | | the home | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme home=Trajectory | | 3 | **is** | present | some | | | | | polite *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | many | sales spin | | | | | tree rules | 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:1`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: work, firi…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/)