Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth, sentence 4
Remember that even soft words about weight can still hurt, so it is kinder not to comment on people's bodies at all.
Who acts: you, soft words · What happens: remember, hurt, be, not comment · To what, where: bodies
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 (you, soft words), 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 | Remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 hurt | mark |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 words | advmod |
| 4 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hurt | nsubj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 weight | case |
| 7 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 words | nmod |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hurt | aux |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 hurt | advmod |
| 10 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Remember | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kinder | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 kinder | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kinder | expl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 kinder | cop |
| 15 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Remember | parataxis |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 comment | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 comment | mark |
| 18 | comment | comment | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 kinder | csubj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 bodies | case |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 people | case |
| 22 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 comment | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 all | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 comment | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Remember | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hurt | can | soft words about weight | still | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | present | kind property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not comment speech: other | to-infinitive | people's bodies | at all | vn lecture-37.11-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:4.
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 ×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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