Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 3

Vivid example: a sign in a shop says "feminine hygiene products" — it simply means pads and tampons, but the long official name sounds less personal.

Who acts: Vivid example, sign, long official name · What happens: say, mean, sound · To what, where: feminine hygiene products, 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: who acts (Vivid example, sign, long official name), 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	Vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 example	amod
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj:outer
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sign	det
5	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 shop	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shop	det
8	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sign	nmod
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 products	punct
11	feminine	feminine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 products	compound
12	hygiene	hygiene	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 products	compound
13	products	product	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 says	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 products	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 means	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 means	nsubj
17	simply	simply	ADV	_	18 means	advmod
18	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 says	conj
19	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 means	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tampons	cc
21	tampons	tampon	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pads	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sounds	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 sounds	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 name	det
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 name	amod
26	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 name	amod
27	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sounds	nsubj
28	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 means	conj
29	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 personal	advmod
30	personal	personal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sounds	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Vivid example	feminine hygiene products		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent product=Topic
2	mean	present	sign	pads and tampons	simply property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pad=Topic
3	sound	present	the long official name		personal 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:3.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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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