Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers, sentence 19
"Sociable" on a school report often means talks too much in class.
Who acts: Sociable · What happens: mean · To what, where: talks
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 (Sociable), 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 Sociable | punct |
| 2 | Sociable | sociable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sociable | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 report | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 report | det |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 report | compound |
| 7 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sociable | nmod |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 means | advmod |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | talks | talk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 means | obj |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 talks | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 class | case |
| 14 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 talks | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Sociable on a school report | talks | often property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Topic |
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:19.
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): no change. 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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