Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour, sentence 8
"Tired" said about a child often means cranky (grumpy) or having a tantrum (a fit of screaming and crying).
Who acts: fit · What happens: say, mean, have, scream, cry · To what, where: tantrum · 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 (fit), 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 | _ | 2 Tired | punct |
| 2 | Tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tired | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 child | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obl |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 means | advmod |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | cranky | cranky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 means | xcomp |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 grumpy | punct |
| 12 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cranky | conj |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 grumpy | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 having | cc |
| 15 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 means | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tantrum | det |
| 17 | tantrum | tantrum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 having | obj |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 fit | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fit | det |
| 20 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tantrum | appos |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 screaming | mark |
| 22 | screaming | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 fit | acl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 crying | cc |
| 24 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 screaming | conj |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 fit | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
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 | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | about a child; cranky, often property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | a tantrum | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tantrum=Patient | |||||
| 4 | scream speech: express | gerund | a fit not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | a fit not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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:8.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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.
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