Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth, sentence 17
"Well-upholstered" is a joking British way to say fat, as if the person were a padded sofa.
Who acts: fat, person · What happens: upholster, joke, be, say, padded · To what, where: joking British way, padded sofa · 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 (fat, person), 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 | _ | 4 upholstered | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 upholstered | discourse |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | upholstered | upholster | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 way | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 upholstered | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 way | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 8 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 way | amod |
| 9 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 way | acl |
| 13 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sofa | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 sofa | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 sofa | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 person | det |
| 18 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sofa | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sofa | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sofa | det |
| 21 | padded | padded | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 sofa | amod |
| 22 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 way | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | upholster in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | joke speech: other | gerund | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a joking British way | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | fat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | padded | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | is a | past | the person | a padded sofa | tree rules |
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:17.
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, 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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