Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth, sentence 0
Grown-ups often talk about babies coming in soft, roundabout words instead of plain ones.
Who acts: Grown ups, babies · What happens: talk, come · To what, where: soft roundabout words
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Grown ups, babies), 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 | Grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ups | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ups | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 talk | nsubj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 talk | advmod |
| 5 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 babies | case |
| 7 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 talk | obl |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 babies | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 words | case |
| 10 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 soft | punct |
| 12 | roundabout | roundabout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 words | compound |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 coming | obl |
| 14 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 17 ones | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 instead | fixed |
| 16 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ones | amod |
| 17 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 coming | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | Grown ups | about babies; often property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about baby=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | babies not said here | soft roundabout words | instead plain ones | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in word=Location |
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:011-pregnancy-and-birth.lesson:0.
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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