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title: "Deceptively spacious" in a house advert usually means small (mostly… — Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Deceptively spacious" in a house advert usually means small (mostly UK). Who acts: house advert. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 20

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"Deceptively spacious" in a house advert usually means small (mostly UK).

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**Who acts:** house advert · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** small

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising» 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 (house advert), 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:20
# text = "Deceptively spacious" in a house advert usually means small (mostly UK).
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Deceptively	deceptively	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	spacious	spacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
13	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | a house advert | small |  |  |  | usually *property* | 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:022-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents.lesson:20`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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