Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 1
Some soft words are respectful, such as "hard of hearing" or "visually impaired", which describe a person without a rude label.
Who acts: soft words · What happens: be, describe · To what, where: person
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» 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 (soft words), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 words | det |
| 2 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 respectful | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 respectful | cop |
| 5 | respectful | respectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hard | punct |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 10 hard | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 such | fixed |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hard | punct |
| 10 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 respectful | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hearing | case |
| 12 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hard | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hard | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 impaired | cc |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 impaired | punct |
| 16 | visually | visually | ADV | _ | 17 impaired | advmod |
| 17 | impaired | impair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hard | conj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 impaired | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 describe | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 describe | nsubj |
| 21 | describe | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hard | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 person | det |
| 23 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 describe | obj |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 27 label | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 label | det |
| 26 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 label | amod |
| 27 | label | label | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 describe | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 respectful | 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 | present | some soft words | such hard; respectful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | describe | present | a person | without a rude label | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=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:004-illness-disability-and-babies.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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