--- title: Calling someone a liar or a drunk is rude, so people reach for softe… — Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty an… · tree and pragmatics description: Calling someone a liar or a drunk is rude, so people reach for softer words. Who acts: Calling, people. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: lying and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/) / 0 # Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 0 Calling someone a liar or a drunk is rude, so people reach for softer words. **Who acts:** Calling, people · **What happens:** call, be, reach · **To what, where:** someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» 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 (Calling, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:029-lying-and-drinking.lesson:0 # text = Calling someone a liar or a drunk is rude, so people reach for softer words. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 029-lying-and-drinking.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 liar liar NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 drunk drunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 reach reach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 16 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **call** | gerund | | someone | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme liar=Result | | 2 | **is** | present | Calling | | | | | rude *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **reach** | present | people | | | | | for softer words | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:029-lying-and-drinking.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/24/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: lying and…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/)