Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 21
"Comfort station" is an official American word for a public toilet, for example in a park.
Who acts: Comfort station · What happens: be · To what, where: official American word
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 (Comfort station), 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 | _ | 3 station | punct |
| 2 | Comfort | Comfort | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 station | compound |
| 3 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 word | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 station | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 word | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 word | det |
| 7 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 word | amod |
| 8 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 word | amod |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 toilet | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 toilet | det |
| 12 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 toilet | amod |
| 13 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 word | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 example | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 example | case |
| 16 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 word | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 park | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 park | det |
| 19 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 example | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 word | 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 | is a | present | Comfort station | a official American word | for a public toilet; for example in a park | 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:21.
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): 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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