Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 19
"Had some work done" means had cosmetic surgery, operations on the face or body that change how a person looks.
Who acts: work, operations, person · What happens: have, do, mean, change, look · To what, where: work, cosmetic surgery · 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 (work, operations, person), 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 Had | punct |
| 2 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 work | det |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Had | obj |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Had | xcomp |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | ccomp |
| 9 | cosmetic | cosmetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 surgery | amod |
| 10 | surgery | surgery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 operations | punct |
| 12 | operations | operation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 surgery | appos |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 face | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 face | det |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 operations | nmod |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 body | cc |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 face | conj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 change | nsubj |
| 19 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 operations | acl:relcl |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 looks | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 person | det |
| 22 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 looks | nsubj |
| 23 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 change | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | some work | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | participle | some work not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | have | past | cosmetic surgery | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surgery=Patient | |||||
| 5 | change | present | operations on the face or body | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | look | present | a person | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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:009-age-looks-and-size.lesson:19.
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, 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.
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