Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour, sentence 21
"The naughty step" means a place where a child must sit as a punishment (UK).
Who acts: naughty step, child · What happens: mean, sit · To what, where: place, UK
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 (naughty step, child), 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 step | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 step | det |
| 3 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 step | amod |
| 4 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 step | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 sit | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sit | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 sit | aux |
| 13 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 place | acl:relcl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 punishment | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 punishment | det |
| 16 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sit | obl |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 UK | punct |
| 18 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sit | obl |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 UK | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the naughty step | a place | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sit | must | a child | UK | as a punishment | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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: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): 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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