Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family, sentence 9
"Partner" means a boyfriend, girlfriend or someone you live with without marrying.
Who acts: Partner, you · What happens: mean, live, marry · To what, where: boyfriend
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 (Partner, you), 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 Partner | punct |
| 2 | Partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Partner | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boyfriend | det |
| 6 | boyfriend | boyfriend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 girlfriend | punct |
| 8 | girlfriend | girlfriend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boyfriend | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 someone | cc |
| 10 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 boyfriend | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 live | nsubj |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 someone | acl:relcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 live | case |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 marrying | mark |
| 15 | marrying | marry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger | 12 live | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | Partner | a boyfriend and girlfriend | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boyfriend=Topic | ||||
| 2 | live | present | you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marry | gerund | you not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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: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): no change. 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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