Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 10
"Visually impaired" means partly or fully blind; it is the official term.
Who acts: help · What happens: impair, mean, be · To what, where: official term · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (help), 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 | _ | 3 impaired | punct |
| 2 | Visually | visually | ADV | _ | 3 impaired | advmod |
| 3 | impaired | impair | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 impaired | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 5 means | advmod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 blind | cc |
| 8 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 9 blind | advmod |
| 9 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 partly | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 term | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 term | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 term | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 term | det |
| 14 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 term | amod |
| 15 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | impair in a quote | participle | visually property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | partly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | help | the official term | tree rules |
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:10.
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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