Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 12
"Freshen up" usually means go to the toilet and wash, often before a meal or meeting.
What happens: freshen up, mean, go, wash · To what, where: toilet · 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 Freshen | punct |
| 2 | Freshen | freshen | VERB | Number=Sing | 6 means | csubj |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Freshen | compound:prt |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Freshen | punct |
| 5 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 6 means | advmod |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 toilet | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 toilet | det |
| 10 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wash | cc |
| 12 | wash | wash | VERB | Number=Sing | 7 go | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 often | punct |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 meal | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 meal | det |
| 17 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wash | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 meeting | cc |
| 19 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meal | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | 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 | freshen up in a quote | infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | the toilet | often property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | wash | infinitive | before a meal or meeting | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:12.
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 ×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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