Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 2

Polite words like "perspire" or "an upset stomach" sound clean; jokes like "Delhi belly" or "technicolour yawn" laugh the awkwardness away.

Who acts: Polite words, jokes · What happens: perspire, sound, laugh away · To what, where: awkwardness

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 (Polite words, jokes), 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	Polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	amod
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sound	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 perspire	case
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 perspire	punct
5	perspire	perspire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 words	nmod
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 perspire	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 stomach	cc
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 stomach	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stomach	det
10	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stomach	amod
11	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 perspire	conj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 stomach	punct
13	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 laugh	conj
14	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sound	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 jokes	punct
16	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 laugh	nsubj
17	like	like	ADP	_	20 belly	case
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 belly	punct
19	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 belly	compound
20	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 jokes	nmod
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 belly	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 yawn	cc
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 yawn	punct
24	technicolour	technicolour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 yawn	compound
25	yawn	yawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 belly	conj
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 yawn	punct
27	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 awkwardness	det
29	awkwardness	awkwardness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 laugh	obj
30	away	away	ADV	_	27 laugh	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sound	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	perspire in a quote	present				vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sound	present	Polite words		clean property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	laugh away	present	jokes like Delhi belly or technicolour yawn	the awkwardness	away property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent awkwardness=Theme

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:2.

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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