Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour, sentence 20
"Time out" means a short punishment of being sent to sit alone.
Who acts: Time out · What happens: mean, send, sit · To what, where: short punishment
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 (Time out), 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 out | punct |
| 2 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 out | compound |
| 3 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 out | 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 | 8 punishment | det |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 punishment | amod |
| 8 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 sent | mark |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sent | aux:pass |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 punishment | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sit | mark |
| 13 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sent | advcl |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 sit | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Time out | a short punishment | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Topic | ||||
| 2 | send | gerund · passive | a short punishment not said here | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | sit | to-infinitive | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «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:014-family-and-behaviour.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): 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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