--- title: "A funny turn" means a sudden faint, fit or small stroke (when blood… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics description: "A funny turn" means a sudden faint, fit or small stroke (when blood stops reaching part of the brain for a short time); it is British and everyday. Who acts: funny turn, blood. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (funny turn, blood), 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:11 # text = "A funny turn" means a sudden faint, fit or small stroke (when blood stops reaching part of the brain for a short time); it is British and everyday. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 8 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod 9 faint faint NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 fit fit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 stroke stroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 reaching reach VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ _ 20 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 everyday everyday ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | a funny turn | faint or a sudden small stroke | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faint=Topic | | 2 | **stop** | present | blood | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **reach** | gerund | blood *not said here* | part of the brain | | | time | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | blood | | | | | british *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | blood *not said here* | | | | | | 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:004-illness-disability-and-babies.lesson:11`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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