--- title: Some of these words are kind (they protect a person who is ill with… — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs a… · tree and pragmatics description: Some of these words are kind (they protect a person who is ill with addiction), some hide the truth, and some are jokes that make heavy drinking sound like harmless fun. Who acts: Some, words, person, jokes. 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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 (Some, words, person, jokes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.lesson:1 # text = Some of these words are kind (they protect a person who is ill with addiction), some hide the truth, and some are jokes that make heavy drinking sound like harmless fun. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 protect protect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 addiction addiction NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 nsubj _ _ 20 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=20:punct 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:det 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 drinking drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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** | present | Some | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **protect** | present | words *= word* | | a person | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Beneficiary | | 3 | **is** | present | a person | | | | | with addiction; ill *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **hide** | present | some | the truth | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | present | some | jokes | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | present | jokes | heavy drinking | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **sound** | infinitive | heavy drinking *not said here* | | | | | like harmless fun | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.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): R2-punct-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: drinking a…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/)