Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks, sentence 1
For the toilet, people pick a polite name ("lavatory"), a sailor's word ("the head") or a joke ("the smallest room").
Who acts: people, sailor · What happens: pick, word · To what, where: polite name
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks» 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 (people, sailor), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 toilet | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 toilet | det |
| 3 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pick | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 toilet | punct |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pick | nsubj |
| 6 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 name | det |
| 8 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 name | amod |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pick | obj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 lavatory | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 lavatory | punct |
| 12 | lavatory | lavatory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 name | appos |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 lavatory | punct |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 lavatory | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 word | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sailor | det |
| 17 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 word | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 sailor | case |
| 19 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 name | conj |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 head | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 head | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 head | det |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 word | appos |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 head | punct |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 head | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 joke | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 joke | det |
| 28 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 word | conj |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 room | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 room | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 room | det |
| 32 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 room | amod |
| 33 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 joke | appos |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 room | punct |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 room | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pick | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | present | people | a polite name and a sailor's word or a joke | for the toilet | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent name=Theme for toilet=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | word | a sailor | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:008-toilets-and-getting-older.lesson:1.
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 ×2, 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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