Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers, sentence 12
"Live wire" means a very energetic, hyperactive child (one so full of energy that he cannot keep still).
Who acts: Live wire, wire · What happens: mean, not keep · To what, where: energetic hyperactive 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: who acts (Live wire, wire), 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 | _ | 3 wire | punct |
| 2 | Live | Live | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wire | compound |
| 3 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wire | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 energetic | advmod |
| 8 | energetic | energetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 child | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 energetic | punct |
| 10 | hyperactive | hyperactive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 child | amod |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 child | appos |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 full | advmod |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 energy | case |
| 17 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 full | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 keep | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 keep | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 keep | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 keep | advmod |
| 22 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 full | advcl |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 keep | advmod |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Live wire | a energetic hyperactive child | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not keep | can | wire | still | vn keep-15.2 «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:015-behaviour-and-school-reports.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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