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title: "Domestic engineer" is a joking name for a housewife, househusband o… — Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Domestic engineer" is a joking name for a housewife, househusband or homemaker. Who acts: Domestic engineer. 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 an
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# Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 5

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"Domestic engineer" is a joking name for a housewife, househusband or homemaker.

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**Who acts:** Domestic engineer · **What happens:** joke, be · **To what, where:** joking name

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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 (Domestic engineer), 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:5
# text = "Domestic engineer" is a joking name for a housewife, househusband or homemaker.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	engineer	engineer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	housewife	housewife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	househusband	househusband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
15	homemaker	homemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Domestic engineer | a joking name |  |  |  | for a housewife and househusband or homemaker | 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:5`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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