Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 0

When people stub a toe or drop a plate, a swear word wants to jump out.

Who acts: people, swear word · What happens: stub, drop, want, jump out · To what, where: toe, plate

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» 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 (people, swear word), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 stub	mark
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stub	nsubj
3	stub	stub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wants	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 toe	det
5	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stub	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 drop	cc
7	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stub	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plate	det
9	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drop	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stub	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 word	det
12	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 word	compound
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wants	nsubj
14	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 jump	mark
16	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wants	xcomp
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 jump	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 wants	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stub	present	people	a toe		vn hurt-40.8.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer toe=Patient
2	drop	present	people not said here	a plate		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme
3	want	present	a swear word			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	jump out not said to happen	to-infinitive	a swear word not said here		out property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:038-drat-and-the-f-word.lesson:0.

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): R1-cc-next ×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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/38-drat-and-the-f-word/0/