Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers, sentence 7
"Free spirit" said about a child means one who does not follow rules.
Who acts: Free spirit · What happens: say, mean, not follow · To what, where: one, rules · 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 (Free spirit), 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 spirit | punct |
| 2 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spirit | amod |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 spirit | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spirit | acl |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 child | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 means | obj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 follow | nsubj |
| 12 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 follow | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 follow | advmod |
| 14 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 15 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 follow | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Free spirit not said here | about a child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Free spirit | one | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not follow | present · do-support | rules | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=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:7.
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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