Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 3
Small, embarrassing things about the body get soft or fancy names too: "body odour" for sweaty smell, "halitosis" for bad breath, "unmentionables" for underwear.
Who acts: Small embarrassing things · What happens: get · To what, where: soft names
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 (Small embarrassing things), 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 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Small | punct |
| 3 | embarrassing | embarrassing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | nsubj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 body | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 body | det |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 things | nmod |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 names | amod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 fancy | cc |
| 11 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 soft | conj |
| 12 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | obj |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 odour | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 odour | punct |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 odour | compound |
| 17 | odour | odour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 names | appos |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 odour | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 smell | case |
| 20 | sweaty | sweaty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 smell | amod |
| 21 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 odour | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 halitosis | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 halitosis | punct |
| 24 | halitosis | halitosis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 odour | conj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 halitosis | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 breath | case |
| 27 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 breath | amod |
| 28 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 halitosis | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 unmentionables | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 unmentionables | punct |
| 31 | unmentionables | unmentionable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 odour | appos |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 unmentionables | punct |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 underwear | case |
| 34 | underwear | underwear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 unmentionables | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Small embarrassing things about the body | soft names | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=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:3.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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