--- title: Old-fashioned phrases hid a lot: "nervous exhaustion" meant a breakd… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics description: Old-fashioned phrases hid a lot: "nervous exhaustion" meant a breakdown, and "went away for a rest" could mean months in a mental hospital. Who acts: fashioned phrases, nervous exhaustion. 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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 (fashioned phrases, nervous exhaustion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:005-drink-mind-and-body.lesson:1 # text = Old-fashioned phrases hid a lot: "nervous exhaustion" meant a breakdown, and "went away for a rest" could mean months in a mental hospital. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 005-drink-mind-and-body.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 fashioned fashioned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 phrases phrase NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 exhaustion exhaustion NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 breakdown breakdown NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 away away ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nsubj 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 25 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advcl 27 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 mental mental ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | past | fashioned phrases | a lot | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | past | nervous exhaustion | a breakdown | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakdown=Topic | | 3 | **go away** *in a quote* | past | fashioned phrases *not said here* | | | | | for a rest; away *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for rest=Beneficiary | | 4 | **mean** | could | nervous exhaustion *not said here* | | | | month | in a mental hospital | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in hospital=Attribute | 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:005-drink-mind-and-body.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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: illness, d…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: illness, d…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/)