--- title: Vivid example: a friend says the new boy "has a nice personality" —… — Soft words for hard things: age and looks and we… · tree and pragmatics description: Vivid example: a friend says the new boy "has a nice personality" — that sounds like praise, but often it is a sly way to say he is not good-looking. Who acts: Vivid example, new boy, nice personality, friend. 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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 (Vivid example, new boy, nice personality, friend), 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:3 # text = Vivid example: a friend says the new boy "has a nice personality" — that sounds like praise, but often it is a sly way to say he is not good-looking. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Vivid vivid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 personality personality NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 — - PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:WDT:PronType=Rel 18 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 often often ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 sly sly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 34 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 36 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 ccomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Vivid example | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the new boy | a nice personality | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent personality=Patient | | 3 | **sound** | present | a nice personality | a nice personality *not said here* | | | | like praise | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location personality=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | friend | a sly way | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Vivid example *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **is** | present | boy | | | | | look *property* | tree rules | 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:3`. **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, 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: age and lo…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/2/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: age and lo…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/)