--- title: Some soft words are respectful, such as "hard of hearing" or "visual… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics description: Some soft words are respectful, such as "hard of hearing" or "visually impaired", which describe a person without a rude label. Who acts: soft words. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/1/) [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: illness, d…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/) / 1 # Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 1 Some soft words are respectful, such as "hard of hearing" or "visually impaired", which describe a person without a rude label. **Who acts:** soft words · **What happens:** be, describe · **To what, where:** person This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» 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 (soft words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:004-illness-disability-and-babies.lesson:1 # text = Some soft words are respectful, such as "hard of hearing" or "visually impaired", which describe a person without a rude label. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 004-illness-disability-and-babies.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 respectful respectful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 10 case _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 hearing hearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 visually visually ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 impaired impair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 describe describe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 without without ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 label label NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some soft words | | | | | such hard; respectful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **describe** | present | | a person | | | | without a rude label | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme | 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:004-illness-disability-and-babies.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: illness, d…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: illness, d…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/)