Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty, sentence 0
People use soft words for things about animals they find unpleasant: toilets, killing and giving pets away.
Who acts: People · What happens: use, find, kill, give away · To what, where: soft words, animals, pets
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» 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 (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 use | nsubj |
| 2 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 use | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 things | case |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 use | obl |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 animals | case |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 things | nmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 animals | acl:relcl |
| 11 | unpleasant | unpleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 find | xcomp |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 toilets | punct |
| 13 | toilets | toilet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 use | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 killing | punct |
| 15 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 toilets | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 giving | cc |
| 17 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 killing | conj |
| 18 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 giving | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 giving | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 use | 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 | use | present | People | soft words | for things about animals; toilets obl | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent word=Theme for thing=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | find | present | People | animals not said here | unpleasant property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic | |||
| 3 | kill | gerund | People not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | give away | gerund | People not said here | pets | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent pet=Theme |
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:018-pets-and-money.lesson:0.
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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