Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 11
"Answer the call of nature" is a joking way to say go to the toilet.
What happens: answer, joke, be, say, go, call · To what, where: call, joking way, toilet, nature · 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: 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 Answer | punct |
| 2 | Answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 way | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 call | det |
| 4 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Answer | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 nature | case |
| 6 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 call | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Answer | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 way | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 10 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 way | amod |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 say | mark |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 way | acl |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 toilet | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 toilet | det |
| 17 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the call of nature | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | joke speech: other | gerund | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a joking way | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | the toilet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | call in a quote | nature | nom call «communication transitive»: of=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:006-toilet-words.lesson:11.
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 ×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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