Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 17
"A shadow on the lung" means a mark on an X-ray that may be a tumour in the lung.
Who acts: shadow, X ray · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: mark, X ray, tumour, lung
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 (shadow, X ray), 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 | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shadow | det |
| 3 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 lung | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lung | det |
| 6 | lung | lung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shadow | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 shadow | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mark | det |
| 10 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 ray | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ray | det |
| 13 | X | x | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ray | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 X | punct |
| 15 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mark | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 tumour | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 tumour | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 tumour | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tumour | det |
| 20 | tumour | tumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ray | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 lung | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lung | det |
| 23 | lung | lung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tumour | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 | a shadow on the lung | a mark | a X ray | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | may | a X ray | a tumour | the lung | 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:17.
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 ×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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