Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth, sentence 23

"A visit from the stork" is a joking way to say a baby is born; children were told storks bring babies.

Who acts: visit, storks · What happens: joke, be, say, bear, tell, bring · To what, where: joking way, baby, children, babies · 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 (visit, storks), 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	_	3 visit	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 visit	det
3	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 way	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 stork	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stork	det
6	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 visit	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 visit	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 way	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	joking	joke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 way	acl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 baby	det
15	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 born	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 born	aux:pass
17	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 say	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 children	punct
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 told	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 told	aux:pass
21	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 way	parataxis
22	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bring	nsubj
23	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 told	ccomp
24	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bring	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 way	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	joke speech: other	gerund			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	a visit from the stork	a joking way	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bear	present · passive		a baby	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	tell speech: assert	past · passive		children	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
6	bring	present	storks	babies	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent baby=Theme

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:23.

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 ×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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