Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers, sentence 9
"Slow to warm up" means shy or anxious with new people.
What happens: warm up, mean · 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: 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 Slow | punct |
| 2 | Slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | csubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 warm | mark |
| 4 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Slow | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 warm | compound:prt |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Slow | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | xcomp |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 anxious | cc |
| 10 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shy | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 anxious | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm up in a quote | to-infinitive | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | shy property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V 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:9.
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, 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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