--- title: Vivid example: at a fancy dinner a guest says "Excuse me, I must pow… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodil… · tree and pragmatics description: Vivid example: at a fancy dinner a guest says "Excuse me, I must powder my nose" — nobody thinks she only wants make-up; everyone knows she is off to the toilet. Who acts: Vivid example, nobody, guest, everyone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vivid example, nobody, guest, everyone), 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:3 # text = Vivid example: at a fancy dinner a guest says "Excuse me, I must powder my nose" — nobody thinks she only wants make-up; everyone knows she is off to the toilet. # 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 Vivid vivid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 fancy fancy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 guest guest NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Excuse excuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 powder powder VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 — - PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 23 nsubj _ _ 23 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 27 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 32 nsubj _ _ 32 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 off off ADV RB _ 32 ccomp _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Vivid example at a fancy dinner | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **excuse** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Vivid example at a fancy dinner *= example* | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 3 | **powder** *in a quote* | must | Vivid example at a fancy dinner *= example* | my nose | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | nobody | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **want** | present | guest | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **make up** *not said to happen* | infinitive | guest *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **know** | present | everyone | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **is** | present | guest | | | | | to the toilet; off *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:006-toilet-words.lesson:3`. **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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: the toilet…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/2/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: the toilet…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/)