Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour, sentence 4
"A domestic" means a violent quarrel at home (police and news jargon, UK).
Who acts: domestic · What happens: mean · To what, where: violent quarrel, home
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 (domestic), 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 domestic | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 domestic | det |
| 3 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 domestic | 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 quarrel | det |
| 7 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 quarrel | amod |
| 8 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quarrel | nmod |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 police | punct |
| 12 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 means | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 jargon | cc |
| 14 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 jargon | compound |
| 15 | jargon | jargon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 police | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 UK | punct |
| 17 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 jargon | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 police | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | a domestic | a violent quarrel | home | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=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:4.
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 ×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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