Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth, sentence 5
"Big-boned" is an everyday soft way to say fat; bones are rarely the real reason.
Who acts: fat, bones · What happens: bone, be, say · To what, where: everyday soft way, real reason · 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, bones), 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 boned | punct |
| 2 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boned | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Big | punct |
| 4 | boned | bone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 way | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 boned | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 way | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 8 | everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 9 | soft | soft | 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 | _ | 20 reason | punct |
| 15 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 reason | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 reason | cop |
| 17 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 20 reason | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 reason | det |
| 19 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 reason | amod |
| 20 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 way | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bone in a quote | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a everyday soft way | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | fat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | bones | the real reason | rarely property | 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:5.
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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