Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 0

Our bodies do messy things: they make gas, sweat, get stuck, run, throw up, and every month many women have a period.

Who acts: bodies, many women · What happens: do, make, sweat, get, run, throw up · To what, where: messy things, gas, period

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 (bodies, many women), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bodies	nmod:poss
2	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 do	nsubj
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 do	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 make	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	nsubj
8	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 things	acl:relcl
9	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sweat	punct
11	sweat	sweat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 make	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
13	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sweat	conj
14	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 get	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 run	punct
16	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 get	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 throw	punct
18	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 get	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 throw	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 have	cc
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 month	det
23	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obl:unmarked
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 women	amod
25	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 do	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 period	det
28	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Our bodies	messy things			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	make	present	bodies = body	gas			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gas=Product
3	sweat	present	bodies = body not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	present	bodies = body not said here			stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	run	present	bodies = body not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	throw up	present	bodies = body not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	have	present	many women	a period	month		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Patient

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:007-wind-sick-and-runs.lesson:0.

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. 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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