Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes, sentence 19
"Happy holidays" (mostly US) is a seasonal greeting that avoids naming Christmas.
Who acts: Happy holidays, seasonal greeting · What happens: be, avoid, name · To what, where: seasonal greeting, Christmas
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» 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 (Happy holidays, seasonal greeting), 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 holidays | punct |
| 2 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 holidays | amod |
| 3 | holidays | holiday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 greeting | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 holidays | punct |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 US | punct |
| 6 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 7 US | advmod |
| 7 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 holidays | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 US | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 greeting | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 greeting | det |
| 11 | seasonal | seasonal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 greeting | amod |
| 12 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 avoids | nsubj |
| 14 | avoids | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 greeting | acl:relcl |
| 15 | naming | name | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 avoids | xcomp |
| 16 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 naming | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 greeting | 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 | is a | present | Happy holidays | a seasonal greeting | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | avoid | present | a seasonal greeting | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | name | gerund | a seasonal greeting not said here | Christmas | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=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:032-religion-fate-failure.lesson:19.
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, R7-rel-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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