Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers, sentence 4
"Having a moment" said about a child means throwing a tantrum.
Who acts: Having · What happens: have, say, mean, throw · To what, where: tantrum · 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 (Having), 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 Having | punct |
| 2 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 means | csubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Having | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Having | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Having | acl |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 child | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | throwing | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 means | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tantrum | det |
| 13 | tantrum | tantrum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 throwing | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | gerund | moment | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | participle | about a child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | Having | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | throw | gerund | a tantrum | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tantrum=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:4.
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): R7-rel-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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