Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty, sentence 19
"Pest control" means killing unwanted animals such as rats or mice.
Who acts: Pest control · What happens: mean, kill · To what, where: unwanted animals · 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: who acts (Pest control), 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 control | punct |
| 2 | Pest | pest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 control | compound |
| 3 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 control | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 means | ccomp |
| 7 | unwanted | unwanted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 animals | amod |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 killing | obj |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 rats | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 animals | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 mice | cc |
| 13 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rats | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | mean | present | Pest control | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | kill | gerund | unwanted animals | such rats or mice | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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:19.
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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