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title: "Freshen up" usually means go to the toilet and wash, often before a… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodil… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Freshen up" usually means go to the toilet and wash, often before a meal or meeting. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 12

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"Freshen up" usually means go to the toilet and wash, often before a meal or meeting.

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**What happens:** freshen up, mean, go, wash · **To what, where:** toilet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:12
# text = "Freshen up" usually means go to the toilet and wash, often before a meal or meeting.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Freshen	freshen	VERB	VB	Number=Sing	6	csubj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
5	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	wash	wash	VERB	VB	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freshen up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | the toilet |  | often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **wash** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | before a meal or meeting |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «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:006-toilet-words.lesson:12`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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