Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 15
"Had an accident" often means someone wet or soiled themselves, not a crash.
What happens: have, mean, soil · To what, where: accident, someone, pads · 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: 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 Had | punct |
| 2 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | csubj |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 accident | det |
| 4 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Had | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Had | punct |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 means | advmod |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 someone | amod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 soiled | cc |
| 11 | soiled | soil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wet | conj |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 soiled | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crash | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 crash | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 crash | det |
| 16 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 someone | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | a accident | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accident=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | someone | often property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Topic | ||||
| 3 | soil | participle | pads = pad | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Destination |
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:15.
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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