Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty, sentence 7
"Do its business" means a pet goes to the toilet.
Who acts: pet · What happens: do, mean, go · To what, where: business, toilet · 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 (pet), 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 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | nsubj |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 business | nmod:poss |
| 4 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Do | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 business | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pet | det |
| 8 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 goes | nsubj |
| 9 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 toilet | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 toilet | det |
| 12 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 goes | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | mouse's business | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | go | present | a pet | the toilet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial_Location |
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:7.
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 ×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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