Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 13
"I'll just wash my hands" is a polite way to say I am going to use the toilet.
Who acts: toilet, I · What happens: wash, be, say, go, use · To what, where: hands, polite way, 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: who acts (toilet, I), 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 | _ | 5 wash | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wash | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wash | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 wash | advmod |
| 5 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 way | parataxis |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hands | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wash | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wash | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 way | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 11 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 way | acl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 say | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 use | mark |
| 19 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 going | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 toilet | det |
| 21 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 use | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash in a quote | future | the women's toilet = toilet | my hands | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a polite way | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | go | present · progressive | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | use | to-infinitive | I not said here | the toilet | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toilet=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:13.
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): no change. 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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