Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers, sentence 17
"Quiet time" means a rest or calming down that the child must take.
Who acts: Quiet time, child · What happens: mean, calm down, take · To what, where: rest
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 (Quiet time, 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 | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 2 | Quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | 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 | 7 rest | det |
| 7 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 calming | cc |
| 9 | calming | calm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 rest | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 calming | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 take | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rest | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | Quiet time | a rest | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Topic | ||||
| 2 | calm down | gerund | Quiet time not said here | down property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | must | the child | a rest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
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:17.
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. 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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