Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth, sentence 2
Old soft words for having a baby stay too: "with child" means pregnant, and "a happy event" is a birth.
Who acts: Old soft words, child, happy event · What happens: have, mean, be · To what, where: baby stay, birth
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 (Old soft words, child, happy event), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 2 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 having | mark |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 words | acl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 baby | det |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stay | compound |
| 8 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obj |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 stay | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 means | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 child | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 child | case |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | nsubj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 child | punct |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 words | parataxis |
| 16 | pregnant | pregnant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 means | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 birth | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 birth | cc |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 event | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 event | det |
| 21 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 event | amod |
| 22 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 birth | nsubj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 event | punct |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 birth | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 birth | det |
| 26 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Old soft words not said here | baby stay | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stay=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | child | pregnant property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a happy event | a birth | 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:2.
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): R5-strong ×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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