--- title: "Physically challenged" means physically disabled; it is mostly Amer… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics description: "Physically challenged" means physically disabled; it is mostly American. Who acts: illness. 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 pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 7 "Physically challenged" means physically disabled; it is mostly American. **Who acts:** illness · **What happens:** challenge, mean, disable, be · **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 (illness), 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:7 # text = "Physically challenged" means physically disabled; it is mostly American. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Physically physically ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 challenged challenge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 physically physically ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 disabled disable VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 ccomp _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 13 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **challenge** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | physically *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **disable** | participle | | | | | | physically *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | illness | | | | | american, mostly *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:7`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: illness, d…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/6/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: illness, d…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/)