Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 15

"See a man about a dog" is a joking excuse to leave the room, usually to go to the toilet; there is no man and no dog.

Who acts: man · What happens: see, joke, be, leave, go · To what, where: man, joking excuse, room, 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 (man), 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 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 excuse	csubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 See	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 dog	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 excuse	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 excuse	det
11	joking	joke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 excuse	amod
12	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 leave	mark
14	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 excuse	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leave	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
18	usually	usually	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 go	mark
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 leave	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 toilet	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 toilet	det
23	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 is	punct
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 is	expl
26	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 excuse	parataxis
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 is	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 dog	cc
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 dog	det
31	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 man	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 excuse	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	infinitive		a man		about a dog	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
2	joke speech: other	gerund					vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		a joking excuse			tree rules
4	leave	to-infinitive		the room			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme
5	go	to-infinitive			the toilet	usually property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial_Location
6	does	present	no man and no dog		there		vn exist-47.1 «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:15.

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, 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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