Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth, sentence 15
"Lost the baby" means had a miscarriage: the baby died before it could be born.
Who acts: baby · What happens: lose, mean, have, die, bear · To what, where: baby, miscarriage · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (baby), 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 Lost | punct |
| 2 | Lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 means | csubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 baby | det |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lost | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 baby | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 miscarriage | det |
| 9 | miscarriage | miscarriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 died | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 baby | det |
| 12 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 died | nsubj |
| 13 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | parataxis |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 born | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 born | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 born | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 born | aux:pass |
| 18 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 died | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose in a quote | participle | the baby | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | a miscarriage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miscarriage=Patient | |||||
| 4 | die | past | the baby | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | bear | could · passive | miscarriage | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:011-pregnancy-and-birth.lesson:15.
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): R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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