Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour, sentence 1

«He's just tired» often means he is screaming, and «she's spirited» often means she will not do as she is told.

Who acts: He, she · What happens: be, mean, scream, not do, tell · To what, where: she · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» 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 (He, she), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 tired	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tired	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 tired	advmod
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 means	ccomp
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 tired	punct
7	often	often	ADV	_	8 means	advmod
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 screaming	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 screaming	aux
11	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 means	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spirited	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 means	cc
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 spirited	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 spirited	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 spirited	cop
17	spirited	spirited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 means	csubj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 spirited	punct
19	often	often	ADV	_	20 means	advmod
20	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	conj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 do	advmod
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 means	ccomp
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 told	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 told	aux:pass
28	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 do	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	He		tired property	tree rules
2	mean	present			often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	scream speech: express	present · progressive	he			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	she		spirited property	tree rules
5	mean	present			often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not do	future	she			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	tell speech: assert	present · passive		she		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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, 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:014-family-and-behaviour.lesson:1.

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, R7-rel-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.

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