Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour, sentence 12
"Strong-willed" means defiant, refusing to obey.
What happens: will, mean, refuse, not obey · 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: 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 | _ | 4 willed | punct |
| 2 | Strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 willed | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Strong | punct |
| 4 | willed | will | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 willed | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | defiant | defiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 refusing | punct |
| 9 | refusing | refuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 means | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 obey | mark |
| 11 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 refusing | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | will in a quote | participle | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | defiant property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | refuse | gerund | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | not obey | to-infinitive | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:12.
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, 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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