Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family, sentence 0

Families use soft words for things people feel shy or sad about: a hurried wedding, where babies come from, a couple who split up.

Who acts: Families, people, babies, couple · What happens: use, feel, hurry, come, split up · To what, where: soft words, things

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family» 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 (Families, people, babies, couple), 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	Families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 things	case
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obl
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 feel	nsubj
8	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 things	acl:relcl
9	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feel	xcomp
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 sad	cc
11	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shy	conj
12	about	about	ADP	_	9 shy	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 wedding	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wedding	det
15	hurried	hurry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 wedding	amod
16	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 things	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 come	advmod
19	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 come	nsubj
20	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wedding	acl:relcl
21	from	from	ADP	_	20 come	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 couple	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 couple	det
24	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wedding	conj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 split	nsubj
26	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 couple	acl:relcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 split	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	Families	soft words	for things	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent word=Theme for thing=Eventuality
2	feel	present	people	things not said here	shy property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	hurry	participle				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	present	babies			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	split up	past	a couple			vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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:012-birth-and-couples.lesson:0.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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