Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 23

"The change" means the menopause, the time in middle age when a woman stops being able to have babies; it is old-fashioned.

Who acts: change, woman · What happens: mean, stop, be, have · To what, where: menopause, babies

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 (change, woman), 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 change	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 change	det
3	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 change	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 menopause	det
7	menopause	menopause	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stops	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 menopause	appos
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 age	case
12	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 age	amod
13	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	nmod
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 stops	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woman	det
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stops	nsubj
17	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 time	acl:relcl
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 able	cop
19	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stops	xcomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 have	mark
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 able	xcomp
22	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 have	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 fashioned	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fashioned	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 fashioned	cop
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fashioned	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 old	punct
28	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	the change	the menopause		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent menopause=Topic
2	stop	present	a woman			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	gerund	a woman not said here		able property	tree rules
4	have	to-infinitive	a woman not said here	babies		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
5	is	present	change		fashioned property	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:23.

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): R7-rel-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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