Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers, sentence 15
"Rascal" means a mischievous, naughty child, said fondly.
Who acts: Rascal, mischievous naughty child · What happens: mean, say · To what, where: mischievous naughty child · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Rascal, mischievous naughty 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 | _ | 2 Rascal | punct |
| 2 | Rascal | rascal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rascal | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 6 | mischievous | mischievous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 child | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mischievous | punct |
| 8 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 child | amod |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 child | acl:relcl |
| 12 | fondly | fondly | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Rascal | a mischievous naughty child | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a mischievous naughty child not said here | fondly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:15.
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, R8-pos-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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