Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 14
"Natural leader" can be spin for bossy; spin means choosing nice-sounding words to make something bad sound good.
Who acts: Natural leader, spin, something · What happens: be, mean, choose, sound, make · To what, where: spin, sounding words, something · 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 (Natural leader, spin, something), 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 | _ | 3 leader | punct |
| 2 | Natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leader | amod |
| 3 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spin | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 leader | punct |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 spin | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 spin | cop |
| 7 | spin | spin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 bossy | case |
| 9 | bossy | bossy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spin | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 means | punct |
| 11 | spin | spin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | nsubj |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 spin | parataxis |
| 13 | choosing | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 means | ccomp |
| 14 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sounding | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 nice | punct |
| 16 | sounding | sound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 words | amod |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 choosing | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 choosing | advcl |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 something | amod |
| 22 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 make | xcomp |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sound | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spin | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | Natural leader | spin | for bossy | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | spin | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | choose | gerund | sounding words | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sound | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | something | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | sound | infinitive | something not said here | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:14.
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 ×1, 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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