Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 1
People feel embarrassed to say these plainly, so they use soft or funny words instead.
Who acts: People · What happens: feel, say, use · To what, where: these, soft words · 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 (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 feel | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 embarrassed | xcomp |
| 6 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 say | obj |
| 7 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 5 say | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 use | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 use | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 use | nsubj |
| 11 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 feel | conj |
| 12 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 words | amod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 funny | cc |
| 14 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 soft | conj |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 use | obj |
| 16 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 11 use | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | People | embarrassed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | People not said here | these | plainly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | |||
| 3 | use | present | People | soft words | instead property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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:1.
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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