Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth, sentence 17
"Termination" is the official word for an abortion, ending a pregnancy on purpose.
Who acts: Termination, official word · What happens: be, end · To what, where: official word, pregnancy, purpose
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 (Termination, official word), 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 Termination | punct |
| 2 | Termination | termination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Termination | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 word | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 6 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 word | amod |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 abortion | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 abortion | det |
| 10 | abortion | abortion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ending | punct |
| 12 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 word | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pregnancy | det |
| 14 | pregnancy | pregnancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ending | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 purpose | case |
| 16 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ending | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 word | 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 | Termination | the official word | for a abortion | tree rules | |||
| 2 | end | gerund | the official word not said here | a pregnancy | purpose | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality pregnancy=Eventuality |
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:17.
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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