Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 2

Hospitals still use calm words: "in a comfortable condition" can describe a patient who is badly hurt but steady, not one who feels cosy.

Who acts: Hospitals · What happens: use, describe, hurt, feel · To what, where: calm words, patient, comfortable condition

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 (Hospitals), 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	Hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 use	advmod
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 describe	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 describe	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 condition	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 condition	det
10	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 condition	amod
11	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 describe	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 condition	punct
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 describe	aux
14	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 use	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 patient	det
16	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 describe	obj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 hurt	nsubj:pass
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 hurt	aux:pass
19	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 hurt	advmod
20	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 patient	acl:relcl
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 steady	cc
22	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hurt	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 one	advmod
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 patient	conj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 feels	nsubj
27	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 one	acl:relcl
28	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 feels	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Hospitals	calm words		still		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	describe	can		a patient	a comfortable condition			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent patient=Theme
3	hurt	present · passive		a patient			badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	feel	present					cosy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:2.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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