Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 17
"Number two" means a poo, emptying the bowels; children and parents use it.
Who acts: Number, children · What happens: mean, empty, use · To what, where: poo, bowels, Number
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 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Number | nummod |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Number | 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 poo | det |
| 7 | poo | poo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 emptying | punct |
| 9 | emptying | empty | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 means | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bowels | det |
| 11 | bowels | bowel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 emptying | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 children | punct |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 use | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 parents | cc |
| 15 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 children | conj |
| 16 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 use | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Number | a poo | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poo=Topic | ||||
| 2 | empty | gerund | Number not said here | the bowels | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bowel=Source | ||||
| 3 | use | present | children and parents | Number | 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:17.
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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