Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 2
When you read "the coach used colourful language", nobody painted anything: the coach swore.
Who acts: you, coach, nobody · What happens: read, use, paint, swear · To what, where: colourful language, anything
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 (you, coach, nobody), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 read | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 read | nsubj |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 painted | advcl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coach | det |
| 6 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | nsubj |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | conj |
| 8 | colourful | colourful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 language | amod |
| 9 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 language | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
| 12 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 painted | nsubj |
| 13 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 painted | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 swore | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 coach | det |
| 17 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swore | nsubj |
| 18 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 painted | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 painted | 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 | read | present | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | use in a quote | past | the coach | colourful language | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient | ||||
| 3 | paint | past | nobody | anything | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent anything=Destination | ||||
| 4 | swear | past | the coach | vn conjecture-29.5 «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:039-pardon-my-french.lesson:2.
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): no change. 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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