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title: "Had an accident" often means someone wet or soiled themselves, not… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodil… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Had an accident" often means someone wet or soiled themselves, not a crash. 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 15

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"Had an accident" often means someone wet or soiled themselves, not a crash.

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**What happens:** have, mean, soil · **To what, where:** accident, someone, pads · **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:007-wind-sick-and-runs.lesson:15
# text = "Had an accident" often means someone wet or soiled themselves, not a crash.
# 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	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	csubj	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	soiled	soil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **have** *in a quote* | past |  | a accident |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accident=Patient |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  | someone |  |  |  | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Topic |
| 3 | **soil** | participle |  | pads *= pad* |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Destination |

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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:007-wind-sick-and-runs.lesson:15`.

**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/).

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