--- title: Vivid example: "Uncle Bill is rather fond of a drink" sounds sweet,… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics description: Vivid example: "Uncle Bill is rather fond of a drink" sounds sweet, but it usually means Uncle Bill drinks too much alcohol. Who acts: Uncle Bill, Vivid example, it, Uncle. 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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 (Uncle Bill, Vivid example, it, Uncle), 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:4 # text = Vivid example: "Uncle Bill is rather fond of a drink" sounds sweet, but it usually means Uncle Bill drinks too much alcohol. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Vivid vivid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 5 Uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 rather rather ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 9 fond fond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 appos _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 14 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 usually usually ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis 21 Uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ _ 23 drinks drink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 24 too too ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 alcohol alcohol NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Uncle Bill | | | | | of a drink; fond *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sound** | present | Vivid example | | | | | sweet *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **mean** | present | it | | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **drink** | present | Uncle | much alcohol | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient | 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:4`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/3/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: illness, d…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/)