Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers, sentence 0
Parents and teachers often describe a child's problems in kind, positive-sounding words so the child and family are not hurt.
What happens: describe, sound, not hurt · To what, where: problems, kind positive sounding words, child
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers» 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 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 describe | cc |
| 3 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Parents | conj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 describe | advmod |
| 5 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Parents | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 problems | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 child | case |
| 9 | problems | problem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 describe | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 words | case |
| 11 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 words | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kind | punct |
| 13 | positive | positive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 words | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 positive | punct |
| 15 | sounding | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 words | amod |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 describe | obl |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 24 hurt | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 child | det |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 family | cc |
| 21 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 child | conj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 hurt | aux:pass |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 hurt | advmod |
| 24 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 describe | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 describe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | infinitive | a child's problems | kind positive sounding words | often property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent problem=Theme | |||
| 2 | sound | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | not hurt | present · passive | the child and family | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:015-behaviour-and-school-reports.lesson:0.
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.
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