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title: "Confinement" means the time around giving birth (old-fashioned, mos… — Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth · tree and pragmatics
description: "Confinement" means the time around giving birth (old-fashioned, mostly UK). Who acts: Confinement, time. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth, sentence 20

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"Confinement" means the time around giving birth (old-fashioned, mostly UK).

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**Who acts:** Confinement, time · **What happens:** mean, give · **To what, where:** birth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth» 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 (Confinement, time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:011-pregnancy-and-birth.lesson:20
# text = "Confinement" means the time around giving birth (old-fashioned, mostly UK).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 011-pregnancy-and-birth.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Confinement	confinement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Confinement |  |  |  | time |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | the time *not said here* | birth |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:011-pregnancy-and-birth.lesson:20`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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