Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 13
"Tummy bug" means a stomach infection with being sick or diarrhoea; it is everyday British English.
Who acts: Tummy bug, stomach infection, bug · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: stomach infection, everyday British English
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 (Tummy bug, stomach infection, bug), 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 bug | punct |
| 2 | Tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bug | compound |
| 3 | bug | bug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bug | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 infection | det |
| 7 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 infection | compound |
| 8 | infection | infection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 sick | mark |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sick | cop |
| 11 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 infection | acl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 diarrhoea | cc |
| 13 | diarrhoea | diarrhoea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sick | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 English | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 English | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 English | cop |
| 17 | everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 English | amod |
| 18 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 English | amod |
| 19 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | 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 | Tummy bug | a stomach infection | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | a stomach infection not said here | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | bug | everyday British English | 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:005-drink-mind-and-body.lesson:13.
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): no change. 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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