Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth, sentence 2
The soft word is a kindness or a joke, but the plain meaning underneath is always the same.
Who acts: soft word, meaning underneath · What happens: be · To what, where: kindness
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 (soft word, meaning underneath), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kindness | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kindness | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kindness | det |
| 6 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 joke | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 joke | det |
| 9 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kindness | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 same | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 same | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 meaning | det |
| 13 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 meaning | amod |
| 14 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 underneath | compound |
| 15 | underneath | underneath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 same | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 same | cop |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 same | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 same | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kindness | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kindness | 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 | the soft word | a kindness or a joke | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | meaning underneath | always, same property | tree rules |
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:2.
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): R5-strong ×2. 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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