Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 16
"Be sick" in British English means vomit, not just feel ill.
Who acts: sick · What happens: be, mean, not feel · To what, where: vomit · 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 (sick), 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 sick | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sick | cop |
| 3 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sick | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 English | case |
| 6 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 English | amod |
| 7 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obl |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | vomit | vomit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feel | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 feel | advmod |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 feel | advmod |
| 13 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 vomit | conj |
| 14 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feel | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | sick property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | sick | vomit | in British English | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot vomit=Theme in english=Attribute | |||
| 3 | not feel | infinitive | sick not said here | ill property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:16.
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): R8-pos-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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