Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 6
"Bathroom" in American English means a toilet, even one with no bath in it.
Who acts: Bathroom · What happens: mean · To what, where: 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 (Bathroom), 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 Bathroom | punct |
| 2 | Bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bathroom | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 English | case |
| 5 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 English | amod |
| 6 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 toilet | det |
| 9 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 one | advmod |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 toilet | appos |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 bath | case |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 bath | det |
| 15 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bath | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Bathroom | a toilet | in American English | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot toilet=Theme in english=Attribute |
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:6.
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): no change. 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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