Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 7
"Physically challenged" means physically disabled; it is mostly American.
Who acts: illness · What happens: challenge, mean, disable, be · 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 (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 challenged | punct |
| 2 | Physically | physically | ADV | _ | 3 challenged | advmod |
| 3 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 means | csubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 challenged | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | physically | physically | ADV | _ | 7 disabled | advmod |
| 7 | disabled | disable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 means | ccomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 American | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 American | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 American | cop |
| 11 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 12 American | advmod |
| 12 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | 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 | challenge in a quote | participle | physically property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | disable | participle | physically property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | illness | american, mostly 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:7.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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