--- title: "The change" means the menopause, the time in middle age when a woma… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics description: "The change" means the menopause, the time in middle age when a woman stops being able to have babies; it is old-fashioned. Who acts: change, woman. 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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 (change, woman), 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:23 # text = "The change" means the menopause, the time in middle age when a woman stops being able to have babies; it is old-fashioned. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 change change 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 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 menopause menopause NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 18 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 cop _ _ 19 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 fashioned fashioned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | the change | the menopause | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent menopause=Topic | | 2 | **stop** | present | a woman | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | gerund | a woman *not said here* | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | a woman *not said here* | babies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | change | | | | | fashioned *property* | 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:23`. **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): 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: illness, d…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/22/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: illness, d…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/)