Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 21

"Aunt Flo" is a joking American way to talk about a period; there is no aunt.

Who acts: Aunt · What happens: joke, be, talk · To what, where: joking American way

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 (Aunt), 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 Aunt	punct
2	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	nsubj
3	Flo	Flo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Aunt	appos
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Aunt	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 way	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 way	det
7	joking	joke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 way	amod
8	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 talk	mark
11	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 way	acl
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 period	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 period	det
14	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 talk	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 is	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 is	expl
17	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 way	parataxis
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 aunt	det
19	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 is	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 way	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	gerund					vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Aunt	a joking American way			tree rules
3	talk	to-infinitive				about a period	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about period=Topic
4	be	present	no aunt		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:21.

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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