--- title: Polite words like "perspire" or "an upset stomach" sound clean; joke… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodil… · tree and pragmatics description: Polite words like "perspire" or "an upset stomach" sound clean; jokes like "Delhi belly" or "technicolour yawn" laugh the awkwardness away. Who acts: Polite words, jokes. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: the toilet…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/) / 2 # Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 2 Polite words like "perspire" or "an upset stomach" sound clean; jokes like "Delhi belly" or "technicolour yawn" laugh the awkwardness away. **Who acts:** Polite words, jokes · **What happens:** perspire, sound, laugh away · **To what, where:** awkwardness This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions» 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 (Polite words, jokes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:007-wind-sick-and-runs.lesson:2 # text = Polite words like "perspire" or "an upset stomach" sound clean; jokes like "Delhi belly" or "technicolour yawn" laugh the awkwardness away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 007-wind-sick-and-runs.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 ×1 1 Polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 perspire perspire VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 nmod _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 14 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 Delhi Delhi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 belly belly NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 24 technicolour technicolour NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 yawn yawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 laugh laugh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 awkwardness awkwardness NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 away away ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **perspire** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sound** | present | Polite words | | | | | clean *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **laugh away** | present | jokes like Delhi belly or technicolour yawn | the awkwardness | | | | away *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent awkwardness=Theme | 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:007-wind-sick-and-runs.lesson:2`. **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 ×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: the toilet…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: the toilet…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/)