Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth, sentence 3

Vivid example: a granny says "Your uncle's a bit well-upholstered these days" — he is not a sofa; she means he has got fat.

Who acts: granny, uncle, child · What happens: say, be, not be, mean, get · To what, where: 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 (granny, uncle, child), 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	Vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 example	amod
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 granny	det
5	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 example	parataxis
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 upholstered	punct
8	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 uncle	nmod:poss
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 upholstered	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 upholstered	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bit	det
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 upholstered	obl
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 upholstered	advmod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 well	punct
15	upholstered	upholstered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 says	ccomp
16	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 days	det
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 upholstered	obl:unmarked
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 upholstered	punct
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 sofa	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sofa	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sofa	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 sofa	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sofa	det
24	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 upholstered	parataxis
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 means	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 means	nsubj
27	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 upholstered	parataxis
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 got	nsubj
29	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 got	aux
30	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 means	ccomp
31	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 got	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a granny				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Your uncle		day	a bit obl; upholstered, well property	tree rules
3	not is a	present	child	a sofa			tree rules
4	mean	present	granny				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	get	present · perfect	child			fat property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:3.

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): R7-rel-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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