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title: "Go potty" means use the toilet, said to young children, mostly in t… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodil… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Go potty" means use the toilet, said to young children, mostly in the US. Who acts: Go potty. 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 24

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"Go potty" means use the toilet, said to young children, mostly in the US.

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**Who acts:** Go potty · **What happens:** mean, use, say · **To what, where:** toilet, young children · **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: who acts (Go potty), 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:24
# text = "Go potty" means use the toilet, said to young children, mostly in the US.
# 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 ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
2	Go	Go	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	potty	potty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | Go potty |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **use** *not said to happen* | infinitive | Go potty *not said here* | the toilet |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toilet=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle | Go potty *not said here* |  | young children |  |  | in the US | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient |

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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:24`.

**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 ×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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