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title: "Glow" is an old British joke word for sweat when said about ladies:… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodil… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Glow" is an old British joke word for sweat when said about ladies: "Horses sweat, men perspire, ladies glow." Who acts: Glow, Horses, men, ladies. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 8

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"Glow" is an old British joke word for sweat when said about ladies: "Horses sweat, men perspire, ladies glow."

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**Who acts:** Glow, Horses, men, ladies · **What happens:** be, say, sweat, perspire, glow · **To what, where:** old British joke word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Glow, Horses, men, ladies), 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:8
# text = "Glow" is an old British joke word for sweat when said about ladies: "Horses sweat, men perspire, ladies glow."
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sweat	sweat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	perspire	perspire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	glow	glow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Glow | a old British joke word |  |  |  | for sweat | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle | Glow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about ladies | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sweat** *in a quote* | present | Horses |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **perspire** *in a quote* | present | men |  |  |  |  |  | vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **glow** *in a quote* | present | ladies |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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:007-wind-sick-and-runs.lesson:8`.

**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): 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/).

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