Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 10
"Finds it hard to stay on task" means the pupil wastes time in class.
Who acts: hard, pupil · What happens: find, stay, mean, waste · To what, where: task, class · 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 (hard, pupil), 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 Finds | punct |
| 2 | Finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hard | nsubj |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hard | expl |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 means | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stay | mark |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hard | csubj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 task | case |
| 8 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | obl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 task | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pupil | det |
| 12 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wastes | nsubj |
| 13 | wastes | waste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 means | ccomp |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wastes | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 class | case |
| 16 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wastes | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | present | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | stay in a quote | to-infinitive | task | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on task=Location | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | hard | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | waste | present | the pupil | class | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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:10.
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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×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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