--- title: A famous British example: newspapers wrote that a politician was "ti… — Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty an… · tree and pragmatics description: A famous British example: newspapers wrote that a politician was "tired and emotional" when they meant he was drunk and could not say so. Who acts: newspapers, politician, he. 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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 (newspapers, politician, he), 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:3 # text = A famous British example: newspapers wrote that a politician was "tired and emotional" when they meant he was drunk and could not say so. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 newspapers newspaper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 politician politician NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 emotional emotional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 drunk drunk ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 ccomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | past | newspapers | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | a politician | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** *in a quote* | | a politician *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | past | newspapers *= newspaper* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past | he | | | | | drunk *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | could | newspapers *= newspaper* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:3`. **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): no change. **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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/2/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: lying and…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/)