Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 12
"Follically challenged" is a joking way to say bald; follicles are the tiny holes hairs grow from.
Who acts: follicles, hairs · What happens: challenge, joke, be, say, grow · To what, where: joking way, bald, tiny holes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight» 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 (follicles, hairs), 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 | _ | 3 challenged | punct |
| 2 | Follically | follically | ADV | _ | 3 challenged | advmod |
| 3 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 way | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 challenged | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 say | mark |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 way | acl |
| 11 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 say | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 holes | punct |
| 13 | follicles | follicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 holes | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 holes | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 holes | det |
| 16 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 holes | amod |
| 17 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 way | parataxis |
| 18 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 grow | nsubj |
| 19 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 holes | acl:relcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 grow | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | challenge in a quote | participle | follically property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | joke speech: other | gerund | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a joking way | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | bald | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bald=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | follicles | the tiny holes | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | grow | present | hairs | the tiny holes not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hole=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:009-age-looks-and-size.lesson:12.
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): 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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