Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 16
"A growth" means a tumour, a lump that may or may not be cancer.
Who acts: growth, lump · What happens: mean, not be · To what, where: tumour, cancer
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 (growth, lump), 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 growth | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 growth | det |
| 3 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 growth | 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 | 7 tumour | det |
| 7 | tumour | tumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lump | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lump | det |
| 10 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tumour | appos |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 cancer | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 cancer | aux |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 cancer | cc |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 cancer | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 cancer | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 cancer | cop |
| 17 | cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lump | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a growth | a tumour | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tumour=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is a | may | a lump | cancer | 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:16.
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 ×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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