Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 1

A report rarely says "lazy" or "bossy"; it says "capable of more" or "a natural leader", and the parent must read between the lines.

Who acts: report, it, parent · What happens: say, read · To what, where: lazy, capable · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (report, it, parent), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 report	det
2	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
3	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	4 says	advmod
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 lazy	punct
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 lazy	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 bossy	cc
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 bossy	punct
10	bossy	bossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lazy	conj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 bossy	punct
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 says	nsubj
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 capable	punct
16	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 says	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 more	case
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 capable	obl
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 capable	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 leader	cc
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 leader	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 leader	det
23	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 leader	amod
24	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 more	conj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 leader	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 read	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 read	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 parent	det
29	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 read	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 read	aux
31	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	conj
32	between	between	ADP	_	34 lines	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 lines	det
34	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 read	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a report	lazy	rarely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lazy=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	it	capable		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent capable=Topic
3	read	must	the parent		between the lines	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: 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:016-school-reports.lesson:1.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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