Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty, sentence 18
"Went to the glue factory" is a joking way to say an old horse was slaughtered.
What happens: go, joke, be, say, slaughter · To what, where: glue factory, joking way, old horse · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 Went | punct |
| 2 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 way | csubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 factory | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 factory | det |
| 5 | glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 factory | compound |
| 6 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Went | obl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Went | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 way | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 10 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 way | amod |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 say | mark |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 way | acl |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 horse | amod |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slaughtered | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 slaughtered | aux:pass |
| 18 | slaughtered | slaughter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 say | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | the glue factory | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to factory=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | joke speech: other | gerund | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a joking way | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | slaughter | past · passive | a old horse | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:018-pets-and-money.lesson:18.
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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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