Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth, sentence 1
Some are kind ("curvy", "cuddly"), some are old-fashioned ("portly", "stout"), some are jokes ("love handles", "dad bod"), and shops use labels like "husky" for boys' sizes.
Who acts: Some, shops · What happens: be, use · To what, where: jokes, labels · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Some, shops), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 curvy | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 curvy | cop |
| 3 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 curvy | advmod |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 curvy | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 curvy | punct |
| 6 | curvy | curvy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 curvy | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cuddly | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cuddly | punct |
| 10 | cuddly | cuddly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 curvy | conj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cuddly | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 cuddly | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fashioned | punct |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 fashioned | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fashioned | cop |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fashioned | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 old | punct |
| 18 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 curvy | conj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 portly | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 portly | punct |
| 21 | portly | portly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fashioned | appos |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 portly | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stout | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 stout | punct |
| 25 | stout | stout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 curvy | conj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 stout | punct |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 curvy | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 jokes | punct |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 jokes | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 jokes | cop |
| 31 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 curvy | appos |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 handles | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 handles | punct |
| 34 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 handles | compound |
| 35 | handles | handle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 jokes | appos |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 handles | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 bod | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 bod | punct |
| 39 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bod | compound |
| 40 | bod | bod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 jokes | conj |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 bod | punct |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 40 bod | punct |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 use | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 use | cc |
| 45 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 use | nsubj |
| 46 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 curvy | parataxis |
| 47 | labels | label | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 use | obj |
| 48 | like | like | ADP | _ | 50 husky | case |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 husky | punct |
| 50 | husky | husky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 labels | nmod |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 husky | punct |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 55 sizes | case |
| 53 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 sizes | nmod:poss |
| 54 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 53 boys | case |
| 55 | sizes | size | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 use | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 curvy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Some | curvy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | Some not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | some | fashioned property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be speech: other | present | some | jokes and dad bod | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | use | present | shops | labels | like husky; for boys's sizes | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent label=Theme for size=Eventuality |
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:1.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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