--- title: "Being diplomatic" means not saying what you really think, to avoid… — Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty an… · tree and pragmatics description: "Being diplomatic" means not saying what you really think, to avoid hurting or angering someone. Who acts: diplomatic, you. 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 t --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 13 "Being diplomatic" means not saying what you really think, to avoid hurting or angering someone. **Who acts:** diplomatic, you · **What happens:** be, mean, not say, think, avoid, hurt · **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 (diplomatic, you), 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:13 # text = "Being diplomatic" means not saying what you really think, to avoid hurting or angering someone. # 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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 cop _ _ 3 diplomatic diplomatic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 11 obj _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 really really ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 think think VERB VB Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 15 hurting hurt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 17 angering anger VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 conj _ _ 18 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | diplomatic *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | diplomatic | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | gerund | diplomatic *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | you | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 5 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | diplomatic *not said here* | | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **hurt** | gerund | diplomatic *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **anger** | gerund | diplomatic *not said here* | someone | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer | 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:13`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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: lying and…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/12/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: lying and…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/)