--- title: "Homely" in American English means plain or not pretty; in British E… — Soft words for hard things: age and looks and we… · tree and pragmatics description: "Homely" in American English means plain or not pretty; in British English it means cosy and home-like. Who acts: Homely, way. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/14/) [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: age and lo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/) / 14 # Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 14 "Homely" in American English means plain or not pretty; in British English it means cosy and home-like. **Who acts:** Homely, way · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** plain This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight» 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 (Homely, way), 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:14 # text = "Homely" in American English means plain or not pretty; in British English it means cosy and home-like. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Homely homely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:NNP:Degree=Pos 6 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:NNP:Degree=Pos 15 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 18 cosy cosy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 home home ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod 23 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Homely | plain | | | | in American English | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot plain=Theme in english=Attribute | | 2 | **mean** | present | way | | | | | in British English; cosy *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in english=Attribute | 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:14`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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: age and lo…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/13/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: age and lo…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/)