Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family, sentence 20
"Conscious uncoupling" means a divorce or break-up (jokey, from a famous celebrity).
Who acts: Conscious uncoupling · What happens: mean · To what, where: divorce
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 (Conscious uncoupling), 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 | _ | 3 uncoupling | punct |
| 2 | Conscious | conscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 uncoupling | amod |
| 3 | uncoupling | uncoupling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 uncoupling | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 divorce | det |
| 7 | divorce | divorce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 up | cc |
| 9 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 up | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 up | punct |
| 11 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 divorce | conj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 jokey | punct |
| 13 | jokey | jokey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 up | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 jokey | punct |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 celebrity | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 celebrity | det |
| 17 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 celebrity | amod |
| 18 | celebrity | celebrity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jokey | obl |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 jokey | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Conscious uncoupling | a divorce or break up | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent divorce=Topic |
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:20.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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