Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 8
"Special needs" means learning or physical disabilities that need extra help, especially at school.
Who acts: Special needs, learning disabilities · What happens: mean, need · To what, where: learning disabilities, extra help, school
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 (Special needs, learning disabilities), 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 needs | punct |
| 2 | Special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 needs | amod |
| 3 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 needs | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disabilities | compound |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 disabilities | cc |
| 8 | physical | physical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 learning | conj |
| 9 | disabilities | disability | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 means | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 need | nsubj |
| 11 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 disabilities | acl:relcl |
| 12 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 help | amod |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 need | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 school | punct |
| 15 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 17 school | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 school | case |
| 17 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 need | obl |
| 18 | . | . | 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 | Special needs | learning disabilities | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disability=Topic | ||||
| 2 | need | present | learning disabilities | extra help | school | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme |
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:8.
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 ×4. 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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