Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth, sentence 0
Talking about someone's weight can hurt, so people reach for softer words than "fat".
Who acts: Talking, people · What happens: talk, hurt, reach
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth» 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 (Talking, people), 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 | Talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hurt | csubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 weight | case |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 weight | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 someone | case |
| 5 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talking | obl |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hurt | aux |
| 7 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reach | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 reach | advmod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 reach | nsubj |
| 11 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hurt | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 words | case |
| 13 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 words | amod |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 reach | obl |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 fat | case |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 fat | punct |
| 17 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 words | nmod |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 fat | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | gerund | about someone's weight | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about weight=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hurt | can | Talking | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | reach | present | people | for softer words than fat | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:euphemisms:010-weight-and-babies.lesson:0.
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.
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