Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 1
Some soft words name a different room or job, like "bathroom" (even with no bath) or "wash my hands" (you will wash them, but that is not why you went).
Who acts: soft words, you, that · What happens: name, wash, not be, go · To what, where: different room, hands, words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions» 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 (soft words, you, that), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 words | det |
| 2 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 name | nsubj |
| 4 | name | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 room | amod |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 name | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 job | cc |
| 9 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 room | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bathroom | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 bathroom | case |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bathroom | punct |
| 13 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 room | nmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bathroom | punct |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 bath | punct |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 bath | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 bath | case |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 bath | det |
| 19 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bathroom | nmod |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 bath | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 wash | cc |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 wash | punct |
| 23 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bathroom | conj |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hands | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 wash | obj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 wash | punct |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 wash | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 wash | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 wash | aux |
| 30 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wash | parataxis |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 wash | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 why | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 why | cc |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 why | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 why | cop |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 why | advmod |
| 37 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 went | advmod |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 went | nsubj |
| 39 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 wash | conj |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 went | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 name | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | present | some soft words | a different room or job | like bathroom with no bath | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | |||
| 2 | wash in a quote | infinitive | some soft words not said here | my hands | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wash | future | you | words = word | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | past | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:006-toilet-words.lesson:1.
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. 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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