Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 24
"Sanitation engineer" is a joking or puffed-up name for a rubbish or garbage collector (US).
Who acts: Sanitation engineer · What happens: joke, puff up, be · To what, where: joking name
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy» 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 (Sanitation engineer), 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 engineer | punct |
| 2 | Sanitation | sanitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 engineer | compound |
| 3 | engineer | engineer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 name | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 engineer | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 name | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 name | det |
| 7 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 name | amod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 puffed | cc |
| 9 | puffed | puff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 joking | conj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 up | punct |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 puffed | compound:prt |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 rubbish | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rubbish | det |
| 15 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 name | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 collector | cc |
| 17 | garbage | garbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 collector | compound |
| 18 | collector | collector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rubbish | conj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 US | punct |
| 20 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 collector | appos |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 US | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 name | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | gerund | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | puff up | participle | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | Sanitation engineer | a joking name | for a rubbish or garbage collector | 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:021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson:24.
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): R4-particle ×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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