Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty, sentence 6
"Doctored" (old-fashioned US) means a pet has been neutered.
What happens: doctor, mean, neuter · To what, where: pet · 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 Doctored | punct |
| 2 | Doctored | doctor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Doctored | punct |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 fashioned | punct |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fashioned | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 old | punct |
| 7 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 US | amod |
| 8 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Doctored | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 US | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pet | det |
| 12 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 neutered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 neutered | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 neutered | aux:pass |
| 15 | neutered | neuter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 means | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doctor in a quote | participle | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | 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:018-pets-and-money.lesson:6.
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 ×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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