Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 1
Polite people catch it halfway and turn it into a harmless word that starts with the same sound.
Who acts: Polite people, harmless word · What happens: catch, turn, start · To what, where: plate, harmless word
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 (Polite people, harmless 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 | Polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 catch | nsubj |
| 3 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 catch | obj |
| 5 | halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | 3 catch | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 turn | cc |
| 7 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 catch | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turn | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 word | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 word | det |
| 11 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 word | amod |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turn | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 starts | nsubj |
| 14 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 word | acl:relcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 sound | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sound | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sound | amod |
| 18 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 starts | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present | Polite people | plate | halfway property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | turn | present | Polite people not said here | plate | a harmless word | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into word=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | start | present | a harmless word | with the same sound | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with sound=Subeventuality |
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:1.
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, R8-pos-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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