Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, sentence 13

Swear words are strong words people say when hurt, angry or shocked; adults try not to swear in front of children and often feel embarrassed when they slip.

Who acts: Swear words, people, adults · What happens: be, say, try, not swear, feel, slip · To what, where: strong words, front · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» of the adult life 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 (Swear words, people, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 words	compound
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 words	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 words	cop
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 words	acl:relcl
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 hurt	mark
9	hurt	hurt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 angry	punct
11	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hurt	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 shocked	cc
13	shocked	shocked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hurt	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 try	punct
15	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 try	nsubj
16	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 words	parataxis
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 swear	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 swear	mark
19	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 try	xcomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 front	case
21	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 swear	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 children	case
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 front	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 feel	cc
25	often	often	ADV	_	26 feel	advmod
26	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 try	conj
27	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 feel	xcomp
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 slip	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 slip	nsubj
30	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 feel	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 words	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Swear words	strong words			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	people	strong words not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	try	present	adults				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	not swear not said to happen	to-infinitive	adults not said here		front of children		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	feel	present	adults not said here			embarrassed, often property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	slip	present	people				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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, 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:adult-life:029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.lesson:13.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

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