--- title: Our bodies do messy things: they make gas, sweat, get stuck, run, th… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodil… · tree and pragmatics description: Our bodies do messy things: they make gas, sweat, get stuck, run, throw up, and every month many women have a period. Who acts: bodies, many women. 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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 (bodies, many women), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:007-wind-sick-and-runs.lesson:0 # text = Our bodies do messy things: they make gas, sweat, get stuck, run, throw up, and every month many women have a period. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 007-wind-sick-and-runs.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 1 Our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 messy messy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 sweat sweat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 14 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 throw throw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | Our bodies | messy things | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 2 | **make** | present | bodies *= body* | gas | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gas=Product | | 3 | **sweat** | present | bodies *= body* *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get** | present | bodies *= body* *not said here* | | | | | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **run** | present | bodies *= body* *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **throw up** | present | bodies *= body* *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **have** | present | many women | a period | | | month | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=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:007-wind-sick-and-runs.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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: the toilet…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/22/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: the toilet…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/)