Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 2

Others are jokes that make it less awkward, like calling the toilet "the throne" or saying you must "see a man about a dog".

Who acts: Others, jokes, you · What happens: be, make, call, say, see · To what, where: jokes, bathroom, toilet, man · 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 (Others, jokes, you), 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	Others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 jokes	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 jokes	cop
3	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 jokes	acl:relcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 awkward	advmod
8	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 calling	punct
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	11 calling	mark
11	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 make	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 toilet	det
13	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 calling	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 throne	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 throne	det
16	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 toilet	appos
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 throne	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 saying	cc
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 calling	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
23	see	see	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 saying	ccomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	obj
26	about	about	ADP	_	28 dog	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 dog	det
28	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 man	nmod
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jokes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Others	jokes		tree rules
2	make	present	jokes	bathroom	awkward property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	call	gerund	jokes not said here	the toilet		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toilet=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	gerund	jokes not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see in a quote	must	you	a man	about a dog	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus

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:2.

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. 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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