--- title: "Had some work done" means had cosmetic surgery, operations on the f… — Soft words for hard things: age and looks and we… · tree and pragmatics description: "Had some work done" means had cosmetic surgery, operations on the face or body that change how a person looks. Who acts: work, operations, person. 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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 (work, operations, person), 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:19 # text = "Had some work done" means had cosmetic surgery, operations on the face or body that change how a person looks. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 nsubj _ _ 3 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 4 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 xcomp _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 9 cosmetic cosmetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 surgery surgery NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 operations operation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 20 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 24 . . 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 | **have** *in a quote* | past | | some work | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | some work *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** | past | | cosmetic surgery | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surgery=Patient | | 5 | **change** | present | operations on the face or body | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **look** | present | a person | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:19`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: age and lo…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/18/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: age and lo…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/)