Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers, sentence 22
"Working towards" on a UK report means not yet meeting the expected standard.
Who acts: Working · What happens: work, mean, not meet, expect · To what, where: expected standard · 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 (Working), 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 Working | punct |
| 2 | Working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 means | csubj |
| 3 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 2 Working | obl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Working | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 report | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 report | det |
| 7 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 report | compound |
| 8 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Working | obl |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 meeting | advmod |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 meeting | advmod |
| 12 | meeting | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 means | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 standard | det |
| 14 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 standard | amod |
| 15 | standard | standard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meeting | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work in a quote | gerund | on a UK report | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on report=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Working | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not meet | gerund | the expected standard | yet | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | expect | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «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:22.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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