Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth, sentence 9
"The patter of tiny feet" means a baby that is expected or wanted (jokey).
Who acts: patter, tiny feet · What happens: mean, expect, want, patter · To what, where: baby
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 (patter, tiny feet), 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 | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 patter | det |
| 3 | patter | patter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 feet | case |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feet | amod |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 patter | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 patter | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 baby | det |
| 10 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 expected | aux:pass |
| 13 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 baby | acl:relcl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 wanted | cc |
| 15 | wanted | want | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 expected | conj |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 jokey | punct |
| 17 | jokey | jokey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | parataxis |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 jokey | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the patter of tiny feet | a baby | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Topic | ||||
| 2 | expect | present · passive | a baby | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | want | participle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 4 | patter in a quote | tiny feet | nom patter «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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:9.
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, 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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