Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 5
"Restroom" means a public toilet, mostly in the US; nobody goes there to rest.
Who acts: Restroom, nobody · What happens: mean, go, rest · To what, where: public toilet
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 (Restroom, nobody), 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 Restroom | punct |
| 2 | Restroom | restroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Restroom | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 toilet | det |
| 6 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 toilet | amod |
| 7 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mostly | punct |
| 9 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 4 means | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 US | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 US | det |
| 12 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 goes | punct |
| 14 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 goes | nsubj |
| 15 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | parataxis |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 goes | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 rest | mark |
| 18 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 goes | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | 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 | mean | present | Restroom | a public toilet | in the US; mostly property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot toilet=Theme in us=Attribute | |||
| 2 | go | present | nobody | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:5.
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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