--- title: "A touch of the sun" means mild sunstroke (feeling ill from too much… — Soft words for hard things: illness, disability… · tree and pragmatics description: "A touch of the sun" means mild sunstroke (feeling ill from too much hot sun); it is old-fashioned and British. Who acts: touch, mild sunstroke. 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 dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/19/) [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/5-drink-mind-and-body/) / 19 # Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 19 "A touch of the sun" means mild sunstroke (feeling ill from too much hot sun); it is old-fashioned and British. **Who acts:** touch, mild sunstroke · **What happens:** mean, feel, be, touch · **To what, where:** mild sunstroke, sun 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 (touch, mild sunstroke), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:005-drink-mind-and-body.lesson:19 # text = "A touch of the sun" means mild sunstroke (feeling ill from too much hot sun); it is old-fashioned and British. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 005-drink-mind-and-body.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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 sunstroke sunstroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 12 feeling feel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 13 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 too too ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 17 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 fashioned fashioned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a touch of the sun | mild sunstroke | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunstroke=Topic | | 2 | **feel** | gerund | mild sunstroke *not said here* | | | | | ill *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | touch | | | | | fashioned *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | touch *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **touch** *in a quote* | | | the sun | | | | | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient | 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:005-drink-mind-and-body.lesson:19`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: illness, d…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/18/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: illness, d…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/)