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title: "Number two" means a poo, emptying the bowels; children and parents… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodil… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Number two" means a poo, emptying the bowels; children and parents use it. Who acts: Number, children. 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 17

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"Number two" means a poo, emptying the bowels; children and parents use it.

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**Who acts:** Number, children · **What happens:** mean, empty, use · **To what, where:** poo, bowels, Number

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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: who acts (Number, children), 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:17
# text = "Number two" means a poo, emptying the bowels; children and parents use it.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
2	Number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	emptying	empty	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bowels	bowel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Number | a poo |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poo=Topic |
| 2 | **empty** | gerund | Number *not said here* | the bowels |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bowel=Source |
| 3 | **use** | present | children and parents | Number |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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:17`.

**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, 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/).

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