Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body, sentence 20
"Assumed room temperature" means died; it is a dark American joke, because a dead body cools down.
Who acts: Assumed room temperature, temperature, dead body · What happens: assume, mean, die, be, cool down · To what, where: dark American joke · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» 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 (Assumed room temperature, temperature, dead body), 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 | _ | 4 temperature | punct |
| 2 | Assumed | assume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 temperature | amod |
| 3 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 temperature | compound |
| 4 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 temperature | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 means | ccomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 joke | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 joke | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 joke | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 joke | det |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 joke | amod |
| 13 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 joke | amod |
| 14 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cools | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | ExtPos=ADP | 20 cools | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 body | det |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 body | amod |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cools | nsubj |
| 20 | cools | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 joke | advcl |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 cools | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | assume in a quote | participle | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | Assumed room temperature | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | die | participle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | temperature | a dark American joke | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cool down | present | a dead body | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:003-death-and-feeling-poorly.lesson:20.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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