--- title: Small, embarrassing things about the body get soft or fancy names to… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics description: Small, embarrassing things about the body get soft or fancy names too: "body odour" for sweaty smell, "halitosis" for bad breath, "unmentionables" for underwear. Who acts: Small embarrassing things. 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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 (Small embarrassing things), 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:3 # text = Small, embarrassing things about the body get soft or fancy names too: "body odour" for sweaty smell, "halitosis" for bad breath, "unmentionables" for underwear. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 embarrassing embarrassing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 9 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 fancy fancy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 13 too too ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 odour odour NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 sweaty sweaty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 halitosis halitosis NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 unmentionables unmentionable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 appos _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 underwear underwear NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | Small embarrassing things about the body | soft names | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=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:005-drink-mind-and-body.lesson:3`. **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, 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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/2/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: illness, d…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/)