--- title: Businesses rename sad things to sound gentler: an undertaker becomes… — Soft words for hard things: death and dying, ill… · tree and pragmatics description: Businesses rename sad things to sound gentler: an undertaker becomes a "funeral director" and a cemetery becomes a "memorial park". Who acts: Businesses, undertaker, cemetery. 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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 (Businesses, undertaker, cemetery), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:003-death-and-feeling-poorly.lesson:1 # text = Businesses rename sad things to sound gentler: an undertaker becomes a "funeral director" and a cemetery becomes a "memorial park". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 003-death-and-feeling-poorly.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Businesses business NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 rename rename VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl 7 gentler gentle ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 xcomp _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 undertaker undertaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 director director NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 xcomp _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 cemetery cemetery NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 23 memorial memorial NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 24 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rename** | present | Businesses | sad things | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 2 | **sound** | to-infinitive | Businesses *not said here* | | | | | gentle *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **become** | present | a undertaker | a funeral director | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **become** | present | a cemetery | a memorial park | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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:003-death-and-feeling-poorly.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×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: death and…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/)