Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 4

Vivid example: "Uncle Bill is rather fond of a drink" sounds sweet, but it usually means Uncle Bill drinks too much alcohol.

Who acts: Uncle Bill, Vivid example, it, Uncle · What happens: be, sound, mean, drink · To what, where: much alcohol · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Uncle Bill, Vivid example, it, Uncle), 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	Vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 example	amod
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sounds	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 sounds	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fond	punct
5	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Bill	compound
6	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fond	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fond	cop
8	rather	rather	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 fond	advmod
9	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 example	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 drink	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 drink	det
12	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fond	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fond	punct
14	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sounds	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 means	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 means	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 means	nsubj
19	usually	usually	ADV	_	20 means	advmod
20	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sounds	conj
21	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drinks	nsubj
22	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Uncle	flat
23	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 means	ccomp
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 alcohol	amod
26	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drinks	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Uncle Bill		of a drink; fond property	tree rules
2	sound	present	Vivid example		sweet property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	mean	present	it		usually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	drink	present	Uncle	much alcohol		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient

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:4.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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