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title: "Aunt Flo" is a joking American way to talk about a period; there is… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodil… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Aunt Flo" is a joking American way to talk about a period; there is no aunt. Who acts: Aunt. 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 21

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"Aunt Flo" is a joking American way to talk about a period; there is no aunt.

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**Who acts:** Aunt · **What happens:** joke, be, talk · **To what, where:** joking American way

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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 (Aunt), 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:21
# text = "Aunt Flo" is a joking American way to talk about a period; there is no aunt.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	Flo	Flo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
8	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Aunt | a joking American way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **talk** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about a period | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about period=Topic |
| 4 | **be** | present | no aunt |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:21`.

**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): no change. **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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