Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour, sentence 18
"The terrible twos" means the difficult stage of a toddler around age two.
Who acts: terrible twos · What happens: mean · To what, where: difficult stage
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» 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 (terrible twos), 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 | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 twos | det |
| 3 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 twos | amod |
| 4 | twos | two | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 twos | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stage | det |
| 8 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stage | amod |
| 9 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 toddler | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 toddler | det |
| 12 | toddler | toddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stage | nmod |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 age | case |
| 14 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 toddler | nmod |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 age | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 terrible twos | the difficult stage of a toddler around age | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stage=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:014-family-and-behaviour.lesson:18.
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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