Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 22
"Fixed" (US) means neutered or spayed, an operation so the pet cannot have babies.
Who acts: pet · What happens: fix, mean, neuter, spay, not have · To what, where: babies · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets» 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 (pet), 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 Fixed | punct |
| 2 | Fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fixed | punct |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 US | punct |
| 5 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fixed | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 US | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | neutered | neuter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 means | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 spayed | cc |
| 10 | spayed | spay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 neutered | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 operation | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 operation | det |
| 13 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | ccomp |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pet | det |
| 16 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 have | advmod |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 operation | acl |
| 20 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | fix in a quote | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | neuter | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | spay | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not have | can | the pet | babies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=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:017-school-and-pets.lesson:22.
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): R7-rel-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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