Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth, sentence 3

Vivid example: when Nan says «Auntie Jo has a little one on the way», she simply means Auntie Jo is pregnant and a baby is coming.

Who acts: Nan, Auntie, Auntie Jo, baby · What happens: say, have, mean, be, come · To what, where: little one, way · 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 (Nan, Auntie, Auntie Jo, 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	Vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 example	amod
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 says	advmod
5	Nan	Nan	PROPN	_	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 means	advcl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
8	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
9	Jo	Jo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Auntie	flat
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 one	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 way	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 one	nmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 means	nsubj
20	simply	simply	ADV	_	21 means	advmod
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 example	parataxis
22	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Jo	compound
23	Jo	Jo	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 pregnant	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 pregnant	cop
25	pregnant	pregnant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 means	ccomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 coming	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 baby	det
28	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 coming	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 coming	aux
30	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 pregnant	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Nan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	Auntie	a little one	the way		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	mean	present	Auntie			simply property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	Auntie Jo			pregnant property	tree rules
5	come	present · progressive	a baby				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:3.

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, 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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