Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth, sentence 6
"Curvy" usually means a woman is plump, with a rounded shape.
Who acts: Curvy, woman · What happens: mean, be, round · 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 (Curvy, woman), 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 | _ | 2 Curvy | punct |
| 2 | Curvy | curvy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Curvy | punct |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 means | advmod |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plump | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 plump | cop |
| 9 | plump | plump | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shape | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 shape | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shape | det |
| 13 | rounded | round | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 shape | amod |
| 14 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plump | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Curvy | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a woman | with a rounded shape; plump property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | round | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:6.
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): no change. 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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