Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 9
"Assisted living" is an American name for a care home where old people get help with daily life.
Who acts: Assisted living, old people · What happens: assist, be, get · To what, where: American name, help
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 (Assisted living, old people), 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 living | punct |
| 2 | Assisted | assist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 living | amod |
| 3 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 living | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 name | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 7 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 name | amod |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 home | det |
| 11 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 home | compound |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nmod |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 get | advmod |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | nsubj |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 home | acl:relcl |
| 17 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 19 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 life | amod |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 help | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 name | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assist in a quote | participle | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Assisted living | a American name | for a care home | tree rules | |||
| 3 | get | present | old people | help | with daily life | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=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:9.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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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