Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 2
Doctors and hospitals use calm jargon: you may feel "discomfort" (pain) during "a procedure" (an operation), and a mistake that harms a patient is called "an adverse event".
Who acts: Doctors, you, mistake · What happens: use, feel, harm, call · To what, where: calm jargon, discomfort, patient, mistake · 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 (Doctors, you, mistake), 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 | Doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hospitals | cc |
| 3 | hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Doctors | conj |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 jargon | amod |
| 6 | jargon | jargon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 use | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 feel | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 feel | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 feel | aux |
| 10 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 use | parataxis |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 discomfort | punct |
| 12 | discomfort | discomfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feel | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 discomfort | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 pain | punct |
| 15 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 discomfort | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 pain | punct |
| 17 | during | during | ADP | _ | 20 procedure | case |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 procedure | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 procedure | det |
| 20 | procedure | procedure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feel | obl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 procedure | punct |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 operation | punct |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 operation | det |
| 24 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 procedure | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 operation | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 mistake | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 mistake | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 mistake | det |
| 29 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 called | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 harms | nsubj |
| 31 | harms | harm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 mistake | acl:relcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 patient | det |
| 33 | patient | patient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 harms | obj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 called | aux:pass |
| 35 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 use | parataxis |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 event | punct |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 event | det |
| 38 | adverse | adverse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 event | amod |
| 39 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 called | xcomp |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 event | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Doctors and hospitals | calm jargon | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jargon=Patient | ||||
| 2 | feel | may | you | discomfort | during a procedure | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discomfort=Theme | |||
| 3 | harm | present | a mistake | a patient | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus patient=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | a mistake | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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: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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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