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title: "Visually impaired" means partly or fully blind; it is the official… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Visually impaired" means partly or fully blind; it is the official term. Who acts: help. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» 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: illness, disability and the body, sentence 10

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"Visually impaired" means partly or fully blind; it is the official term.

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**Who acts:** help · **What happens:** impair, mean, be · **To what, where:** official term · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:004-illness-disability-and-babies.lesson:10
# text = "Visually impaired" means partly or fully blind; it is the official term.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 004-illness-disability-and-babies.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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Visually	visually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	impaired	impair	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **impair** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | visually *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | partly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | help | the official term |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:004-illness-disability-and-babies.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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