Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 3

Vivid example: at a fancy dinner a guest says "Excuse me, I must powder my nose" — nobody thinks she only wants make-up; everyone knows she is off to the toilet.

Who acts: Vivid example, nobody, guest, everyone · What happens: say, excuse, powder, think, want, make up · To what, where: Vivid example, nose · 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 (Vivid example, nobody, guest, everyone), 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	Vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 example	amod
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 dinner	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 dinner	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dinner	det
6	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dinner	amod
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 example	nmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 guest	det
9	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Excuse	punct
12	Excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Excuse	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 powder	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 powder	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 powder	aux
17	powder	powder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Excuse	conj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 nose	nmod:poss
19	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 powder	obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 nose	punct
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 thinks	punct
22	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 thinks	nsubj
23	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	conj
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wants	nsubj
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 wants	advmod
26	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 thinks	ccomp
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wants	xcomp
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 up	punct
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 make	compound:prt
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 knows	punct
31	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	32 knows	nsubj
32	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	conj
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 off	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 off	cop
35	off	off	ADV	_	32 knows	ccomp
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 toilet	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 toilet	det
38	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 off	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Vivid example at a fancy dinner			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	excuse in a quote	infinitive		Vivid example at a fancy dinner = example		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	powder in a quote	must	Vivid example at a fancy dinner = example	my nose		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient
4	think speech: other	present	nobody			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	want	present	guest			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	make up not said to happen	infinitive	guest not said here			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
7	know	present	everyone			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	present	guest		to the toilet; off 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:3.

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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