Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes, sentence 20
"A holiday tree" (US, official) means a Christmas tree, called by a name that avoids religion.
Who acts: holiday tree, name · What happens: mean, call, avoid · To what, where: Christmas tree, religion · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (holiday tree, name), 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 tree | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 3 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tree | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 US | punct |
| 7 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 official | punct |
| 9 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 US | conj |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 US | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 13 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 tree | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 name | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 name | det |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 avoids | nsubj |
| 21 | avoids | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 name | acl:relcl |
| 22 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 avoids | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a holiday tree | a Christmas tree | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a Christmas tree not said here | by a name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | avoid | present | a name | religion | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent religion=Location |
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: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): 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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