Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty, sentence 9
"Left a present" is a joking way to say a pet left droppings or a dead animal.
Who acts: pet · What happens: leave, joke, be, say · To what, where: present, joking way, droppings · 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 Left | punct |
| 2 | Left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 present | det |
| 4 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Left | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Left | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 8 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 way | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 droppings | det |
| 13 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | nsubj |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | ccomp |
| 15 | droppings | dropping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 left | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 animal | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 animal | det |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 animal | amod |
| 19 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 droppings | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | past | a present | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme | |||||
| 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 | leave | past | pet | a droppings or a dead animal | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropping=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:9.
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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