Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth, sentence 16
"Pregnancy loss" is the official phrase for a miscarriage or a stillbirth (a baby that dies just before or while being born).
Who acts: Pregnancy loss, baby · What happens: be, die, bear · To what, where: official phrase
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 (Pregnancy loss, 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 | _ | 3 loss | punct |
| 2 | Pregnancy | pregnancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loss | compound |
| 3 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 phrase | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 loss | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 phrase | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 phrase | det |
| 7 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 phrase | amod |
| 8 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 miscarriage | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 miscarriage | det |
| 11 | miscarriage | miscarriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 phrase | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 stillbirth | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stillbirth | det |
| 14 | stillbirth | stillbirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 miscarriage | conj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 baby | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 baby | det |
| 17 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 miscarriage | conj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 dies | nsubj |
| 19 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 baby | acl:relcl |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 before | advmod |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 dies | advmod |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 born | cc |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 born | mark |
| 24 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 born | aux:pass |
| 25 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 dies | advcl |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 baby | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 phrase | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Pregnancy loss | the official phrase | for a miscarriage or a stillbirth and a baby | tree rules | |||
| 2 | die | present | a baby | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | bear | gerund · passive | a baby not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
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:16.
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): R6-punct-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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