Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 8

"Glow" is an old British joke word for sweat when said about ladies: "Horses sweat, men perspire, ladies glow."

Who acts: Glow, Horses, men, ladies · What happens: be, say, sweat, perspire, glow · To what, where: old British joke word · 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 (Glow, Horses, men, ladies), 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 Glow	punct
2	Glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 word	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Glow	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 word	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 word	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 word	amod
7	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 word	amod
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 word	compound
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 sweat	case
11	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 word	nmod
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 said	advmod
13	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 word	advcl
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 ladies	case
15	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 sweat	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 sweat	punct
18	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sweat	nsubj
19	sweat	sweat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 perspire	punct
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 perspire	nsubj
22	perspire	perspire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 glow	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 perspire	punct
24	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 glow	nsubj
25	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sweat	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 word	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 word	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Glow	a old British joke word	for sweat	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	participle	Glow not said here		about ladies	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sweat in a quote	present	Horses			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	perspire in a quote	present	men			vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	glow in a quote	present	ladies			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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:8.

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): R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/8/