Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour, sentence 23
"Use your words" means stop hitting, screaming or whining and say what you want.
Who acts: you, your · What happens: use, mean, stop, hit, scream, whine · To what, where: words · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, your), 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 Use | punct |
| 2 | Use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | nsubj |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 words | nmod:poss |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Use | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Use | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | hitting | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stop | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 screaming | punct |
| 10 | screaming | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hitting | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 whining | cc |
| 12 | whining | whine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hitting | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 say | cc |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 stop | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 want | obj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 want | nsubj |
| 17 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | 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 | use in a quote | infinitive | your words | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | stop not said to happen | infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | hit | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | scream speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | whine | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 8 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 9 | word in a quote | your | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:23.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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