Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 11
"A funny turn" means a sudden faint, fit or small stroke (when blood stops reaching part of the brain for a short time); it is British and everyday.
Who acts: funny turn, blood · What happens: mean, stop, reach, be · To what, where: faint, part
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 (funny turn, blood), 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 | _ | 4 turn | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 turn | det |
| 3 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 turn | amod |
| 4 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 turn | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stroke | det |
| 8 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stroke | amod |
| 9 | faint | faint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fit | punct |
| 11 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 faint | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 stroke | cc |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stroke | amod |
| 14 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 faint | conj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 stops | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 stops | advmod |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stops | nsubj |
| 18 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 stroke | acl:relcl |
| 19 | reaching | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 stops | xcomp |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reaching | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 brain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 brain | det |
| 23 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 part | nmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 26 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 time | amod |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reaching | obl |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 stops | punct |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 British | punct |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 British | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 British | cop |
| 32 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | parataxis |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 everyday | cc |
| 34 | everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 British | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a funny turn | faint or a sudden small stroke | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faint=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stop | present | blood | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | reach | gerund | blood not said here | part of the brain | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | present | blood | british property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | blood not said here | 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:11.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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