Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers, sentence 8
"Clingy" means anxious and unwilling to leave the parent.
Who acts: Clingy · What happens: mean, leave · To what, where: parent
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 (Clingy), 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 Clingy | punct |
| 2 | Clingy | clingy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Clingy | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 unwilling | cc |
| 7 | unwilling | unwilling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 anxious | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 leave | mark |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 unwilling | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 parent | det |
| 11 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | Clingy | anxious property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | Clingy not said here | the parent | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=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:8.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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