Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 16
"Number one" means a wee, urinating; children and parents use it.
Who acts: Number, children · What happens: mean, urinate, use · To what, where: wee
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 (Number, children), 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 Number | punct |
| 2 | Number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wee | det |
| 7 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 urinating | punct |
| 9 | urinating | urinate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 means | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 use | punct |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 use | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 parents | cc |
| 13 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 children | conj |
| 14 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 use | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Number | a wee | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wee=Topic | ||||
| 2 | urinate | gerund | Number not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | use | present | children and parents | wee | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:16.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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