Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 23
"Done" (UK) means a pet has been neutered.
What happens: mean, neuter · To what, where: pet · 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: 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 Done | punct |
| 2 | Done | done | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | csubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Done | punct |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 UK | punct |
| 5 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Done | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 UK | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pet | det |
| 9 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 neutered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 neutered | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 neutered | aux:pass |
| 12 | neutered | neuter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 means | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | neuter | present · perfect · passive | a pet | tree rules |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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