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title: "Interesting choice" said about clothes, food or a decision usually… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics
description: "Interesting choice" said about clothes, food or a decision usually means "a bad choice". Who acts: Interesting choice. 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 
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# Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 25

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"Interesting choice" said about clothes, food or a decision usually means "a bad choice".

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**Who acts:** Interesting choice · **What happens:** say, mean · **To what, where:** bad choice · **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 (Interesting choice), 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:25
# text = "Interesting choice" said about clothes, food or a decision usually means "a bad choice".
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
13	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Interesting choice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about clothes and food and a decision | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Interesting choice | a bad choice |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=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:25`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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