Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 6
"Differently abled" means disabled; it is a polite, positive-sounding phrase.
Who acts: illness · What happens: mean, disable, sound, be · To what, where: polite positive sounding phrase
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 (illness), 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 abled | punct |
| 2 | Differently | differently | ADV | _ | 3 abled | advmod |
| 3 | abled | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | csubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 abled | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | disabled | disable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 phrase | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 phrase | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 phrase | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 phrase | det |
| 11 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 phrase | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 polite | punct |
| 13 | positive | positive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 phrase | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 positive | punct |
| 15 | sounding | sound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 phrase | amod |
| 16 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | 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 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | disable not said to happen | participle | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | sound | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | illness | a polite positive sounding phrase | 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:6.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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