--- title: People are sensitive about how they look: wrinkles, baldness, being… — Soft words for hard things: age and looks and we… · tree and pragmatics description: People are sensitive about how they look: wrinkles, baldness, being short or not pretty, or getting forgetful with age. Who acts: People. 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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 (People), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:009-age-looks-and-size.lesson:0 # text = People are sensitive about how they look: wrinkles, baldness, being short or not pretty, or getting forgetful with age. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 009-age-looks-and-size.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 sensitive sensitive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 about about SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 wrinkles wrinkle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 baldness baldness NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 cop _ _ 14 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 21 forgetful forgetful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | People | | | | | sensitive *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | present | People | wrinkles and baldness | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wrinkle=Attribute | | 3 | **is** | gerund | People *not said here* | | | | | short *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **be** | | People *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **get** | gerund | | | | | with age | forgetful *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:009-age-looks-and-size.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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: the toilet…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/24/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: age and lo…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/)