Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 18
"Technicolour yawn" is joking Australian slang for vomit.
Who acts: Technicolour yawn · What happens: joke · To what, where: Australian slang
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 (Technicolour yawn), 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 yawn | punct |
| 2 | Technicolour | technicolour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 yawn | compound |
| 3 | yawn | yawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 joking | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 yawn | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 joking | aux |
| 6 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 slang | amod |
| 8 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 joking | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 vomit | case |
| 10 | vomit | vomit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slang | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 joking | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | present · progressive | Technicolour yawn | Australian slang | for vomit | tree rules |
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:18.
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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