--- title: Vivid example: when a nurse says "you may feel some discomfort", get… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics description: Vivid example: when a nurse says "you may feel some discomfort", get ready, because it will probably hurt. Who acts: Vivid example, you, nurse. 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 dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: illness, d…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/) / 4 # Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 4 Vivid example: when a nurse says "you may feel some discomfort", get ready, because it will probably hurt. **Who acts:** Vivid example, you, nurse · **What happens:** say, feel, get, hurt · **To what, where:** discomfort · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Vivid example, you, nurse), 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:4 # text = Vivid example: when a nurse says "you may feel some discomfort", get ready, because it will probably hurt. # 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 ×1 1 Vivid vivid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:outer _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 13 discomfort discomfort NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 17 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 probably probably ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Vivid example | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **feel** *in a quote* | may | you | some discomfort | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | infinitive | | | | | | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **hurt** | future | nurse | | | | | probably *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | 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:4`. **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 ×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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/3/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: illness, d…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/)