Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 7
"Powder room" means a small toilet for guests in a house, mostly in the US.
Who acts: Powder room · What happens: mean · To what, where: small 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 (Powder room), 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 room | punct |
| 2 | Powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 room | compound |
| 3 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 room | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 toilet | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 toilet | amod |
| 8 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 guests | case |
| 10 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 toilet | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 guests | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 US | punct |
| 15 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 18 US | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 US | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 US | det |
| 18 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | Powder room | a small toilet | for guests in a house; in the US | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot toilet=Theme in us=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:7.
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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