Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs, sentence 12
"Feeling delicate" in Britain is a polite way to say hungover.
Who acts: Feeling, hungover · What happens: feel, be, say · To what, where: polite way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs» 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 (Feeling, hungover), 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 Feeling | punct |
| 2 | Feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 way | csubj |
| 3 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Feeling | xcomp |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Feeling | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Britain | case |
| 6 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Feeling | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 way | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 way | acl |
| 13 | hungover | hungover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel in a quote | gerund | in Britain; delicate property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in britain=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Feeling | a polite way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | hungover | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:030-drinking-and-drugs.lesson:12.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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