Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 24
"Halitosis" is the medical-sounding name for bad breath.
Who acts: Halitosis · What happens: sound, be · To what, where: medical sounding name
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 (Halitosis), 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 | _ | 2 Halitosis | punct |
| 2 | Halitosis | halitosis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 name | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Halitosis | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 name | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 name | det |
| 6 | medical | medical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 name | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 medical | punct |
| 8 | sounding | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 name | amod |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 breath | case |
| 11 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 breath | amod |
| 12 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 name | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 name | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Halitosis | the medical sounding name | for bad breath | 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:24.
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): R8-pos-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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