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title: Pregnancy has many soft and funny names, from the polite "expecting"… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pregnancy has many soft and funny names, from the polite "expecting" to the joking "a bun in the oven". Who acts: Pregnancy. 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 prag
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# Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 3

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Pregnancy has many soft and funny names, from the polite "expecting" to the joking "a bun in the oven".

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**Who acts:** Pregnancy · **What happens:** have, joke · **To what, where:** many soft names

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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 (Pregnancy), 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:3
# text = Pregnancy has many soft and funny names, from the polite "expecting" to the joking "a bun in the oven".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Pregnancy	pregnancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	polite	polite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	expecting	expecting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	amod	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bun	bun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Pregnancy | many soft names and the polite |  |  |  | to the joking bun in the oven | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 2 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:3`.

**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): R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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