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title: "Women's problems" is an old-fashioned phrase for illness or pain of… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Women's problems" is an old-fashioned phrase for illness or pain of a woman's body, such as bad period pains. Who acts: problems. 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 th
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# Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 17

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"Women's problems" is an old-fashioned phrase for illness or pain of a woman's body, such as bad period pains.

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**Who acts:** problems · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fashioned phrase

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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 (problems), 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:17
# text = "Women's problems" is an old-fashioned phrase for illness or pain of a woman's body, such as bad period pains.
# 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 ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
2	Women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Women's problems | a fashioned phrase and period pains |  |  |  | for illness of a woman's body or pain | 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:17`.

**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. **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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