Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks, sentence 11
"Wee" is the British everyday word for urine or to urinate, often used with children.
Who acts: Wee · What happens: be, urinate, use · To what, where: British everyday word
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 (Wee), 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 Wee | punct |
| 2 | Wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 word | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wee | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 word | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 6 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 word | amod |
| 7 | everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 word | amod |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 urine | case |
| 10 | urine | urine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 word | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 urinate | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 urinate | mark |
| 13 | urinate | urinate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 word | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 used | punct |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 used | advmod |
| 16 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 word | acl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 children | case |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 used | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 word | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Wee | the British everyday word | for urine | tree rules | |||
| 2 | urinate | to-infinitive | Wee not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | use | participle | the British everyday word not said here | with children; often property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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:11.
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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