--- title: "Shotgun wedding" means a wedding hurried because a baby is on the w… — Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth… · tree and pragmatics description: "Shotgun wedding" means a wedding hurried because a baby is on the way (jokey). Who acts: Shotgun wedding, baby. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: pregnancy…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/) / 4 # Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family, sentence 4 "Shotgun wedding" means a wedding hurried because a baby is on the way (jokey). **Who acts:** Shotgun wedding, baby · **What happens:** mean, hurry, be · **To what, where:** wedding, way This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family» 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 (Shotgun wedding, baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:012-birth-and-couples.lesson:4 # text = "Shotgun wedding" means a wedding hurried because a baby is on the way (jokey). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 012-birth-and-couples.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Shotgun shotgun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod 3 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 hurried hurry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 advcl _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 17 jokey jokey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Shotgun wedding | a wedding | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Topic | | 2 | **hurry** | participle | | a wedding *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | a baby | | | the way | | | tree rules | 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](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:012-birth-and-couples.lesson:4`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: pregnancy…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: pregnancy…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/)