--- title: Almost every language has soft words for the toilet, because people… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodil… · tree and pragmatics description: Almost every language has soft words for the toilet, because people feel shy about saying what they are going to do there. Who acts: language, people. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/0/) [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: the toilet…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/) / 0 # Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 0 Almost every language has soft words for the toilet, because people feel shy about saying what they are going to do there. **Who acts:** language, people · **What happens:** have, feel, say, go, do · **To what, where:** soft words · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions» 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 (language, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:006-toilet-words.lesson:0 # text = Almost every language has soft words for the toilet, because people feel shy about saying what they are going to do there. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 006-toilet-words.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): no change 1 Almost almost ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 3 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 14 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 about about SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 17 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 22 obj _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 ccomp _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | every language | soft words | | | | for the toilet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **feel** | present | people | | | | | shy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **go** | present · progressive | people | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | there | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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:006-toilet-words.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/24/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: the toilet…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/)