Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family, sentence 6

"Found under a cabbage leaf" is a jokey story told to small children about where babies come from (UK).

Who acts: jokey story, babies · What happens: find, be, tell, come · To what, where: jokey story, cabbage leaf, small children · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (jokey story, babies), 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	_	2 Found	punct
2	Found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 story	acl
3	under	under	ADP	_	6 leaf	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 leaf	det
5	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaf	compound
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Found	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Found	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 story	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 story	det
10	jokey	jokey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 story	amod
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 children	case
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 children	amod
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 told	obl
16	about	about	SCONJ	_	19 come	mark
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 come	advmod
18	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	nsubj
19	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 told	advcl
20	from	from	ADP	_	19 come	obl
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 UK	punct
22	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 come	appos
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 UK	punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 story	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	find in a quote	participle		a jokey story not said here		a cabbage leaf	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		a jokey story			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	a jokey story		small children		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient
4	come	present	babies				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:012-birth-and-couples.lesson:6.

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 ×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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