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title: Shops and officials use soft words as well: "plus-size" clothes, "pe… — Soft words for hard things: age and looks and we… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shops and officials use soft words as well: "plus-size" clothes, "petite" sizes, "assisted living" and "older adults". Who acts: Shops. 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 p
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# Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 4

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Shops and officials use soft words as well: "plus-size" clothes, "petite" sizes, "assisted living" and "older adults".

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**Who acts:** Shops · **What happens:** use, assist · **To what, where:** soft words

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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 (Shops), 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:4
# text = Shops and officials use soft words as well: "plus-size" clothes, "petite" sizes, "assisted living" and "older adults".
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	4	advmod	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
11	plus	plus	ADJ	JJ	_	13	amod	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	petite	petite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
23	assisted	assist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	amod	_	_
24	living	live	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
28	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Shops and officials | soft words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **assist** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:4`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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