Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth, sentence 13
"Heavyset" is an American way to say fat or heavily built.
Who acts: Heavyset · What happens: be, say, build · To what, where: American way, fat · 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 (Heavyset), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Heavyset | punct |
| 2 | Heavyset | heavyset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Heavyset | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 say | mark |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 way | acl |
| 10 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 say | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 built | cc |
| 12 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 13 built | advmod |
| 13 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fat | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Heavyset | a American way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | fat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fat=Topic | |||||
| 3 | build | participle | heavily property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «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:euphemisms:010-weight-and-babies.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): 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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