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title: "Full-figured" is a polite way to say a woman is fat or large. — Soft words for hard things: age and looks and we… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Full-figured" is a polite way to say a woman is fat or large. Who acts: woman. 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 of every clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 23

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"Full-figured" is a polite way to say a woman is fat or large.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** figure, be, say · **To what, where:** polite way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (woman), 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:23
# text = "Full-figured" is a polite way to say a woman is fat or large.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	figured	figure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **figure** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a polite way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | a woman |  |  |  |  | fat *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | a woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:009-age-looks-and-size.lesson:23`.

**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 ×2, 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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