Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 20
"The facilities" is a polite word for the toilet, as in "Where are the facilities?"
Who acts: facilities · What happens: be · To what, where: polite word · 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 (facilities), 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 | _ | 8 word | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 facilities | det |
| 3 | facilities | facility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 word | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 facilities | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 word | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 7 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 word | amod |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 toilet | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 toilet | det |
| 11 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 word | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Where | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 Where | mark |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 as | fixed |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Where | punct |
| 16 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 word | parataxis |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Where | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 facilities | det |
| 19 | facilities | facility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Where | nsubj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 word | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 word | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the facilities | a polite word | for the toilet | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the facilities | where property | tree rules |
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:20.
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. 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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