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title: "Not a people person" means unfriendly or rude to others; it is said… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics
description: "Not a people person" means unfriendly or rude to others; it is said kindly. Who acts: people person. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 24

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"Not a people person" means unfriendly or rude to others; it is said kindly.

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**Who acts:** people person · **What happens:** mean, say · **To what, where:** person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» 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 (people person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:24
# text = "Not a people person" means unfriendly or rude to others; it is said kindly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 040-with-all-due-respect.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	unfriendly	unfriendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
17	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | a people person |  |  |  |  | unfriendly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | person |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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.

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**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:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:24`.

**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, 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/).

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