Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 0
Teachers write reports that parents read, so they choose kind, careful words instead of blunt ones.
Who acts: Teachers, parents · What happens: write, read, choose · To what, where: reports, kind careful words
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Teachers, parents), 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 | Teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 write | nsubj |
| 2 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 write | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 read | obj |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 read | nsubj |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reports | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 choose | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 choose | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 choose | nsubj |
| 10 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 write | conj |
| 11 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 words | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kind | punct |
| 13 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 words | amod |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 choose | obj |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 18 ones | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 instead | fixed |
| 17 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ones | amod |
| 18 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 choose | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 write | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | Teachers | reports | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent report=Theme | ||||
| 2 | read | present | parents | reports | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 3 | choose | present | parents = parent | kind careful words | instead blunt ones | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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:016-school-reports.lesson:0.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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