--- title: Vivid example: a sign in a shop says "feminine hygiene products" — i… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodil… · tree and pragmatics description: Vivid example: a sign in a shop says "feminine hygiene products" — it simply means pads and tampons, but the long official name sounds less personal. Who acts: Vivid example, sign, long official name. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions» of the euphe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: the toilet…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/) / 3 # Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 3 Vivid example: a sign in a shop says "feminine hygiene products" — it simply means pads and tampons, but the long official name sounds less personal. **Who acts:** Vivid example, sign, long official name · **What happens:** say, mean, sound · **To what, where:** feminine hygiene products, pads · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Vivid example, sign, long official name), 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:3 # text = Vivid example: a sign in a shop says "feminine hygiene products" — it simply means pads and tampons, but the long official name sounds less personal. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Vivid vivid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:outer _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 feminine feminine NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 hygiene hygiene NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 products product NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 — - PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 simply simply ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 pads pad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 tampons tampon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 29 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 30 personal personal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9: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 | feminine hygiene products | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent product=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | sign | pads and tampons | | | | simply *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pad=Topic | | 3 | **sound** | present | the long official name | | | | | personal *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/2/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: the toilet…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/7-wind-sick-and-runs/)