Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 17
"Would benefit from" (more practice, more reading) means the pupil badly needs it.
Who acts: pupil · What happens: benefit, mean, need · To what, where: reading · 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 (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 | _ | 3 benefit | punct |
| 2 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 benefit | aux |
| 3 | benefit | benefit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 means | csubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 benefit | case |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 benefit | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 practice | punct |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 practice | amod |
| 8 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 benefit | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reading | punct |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 reading | amod |
| 11 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 practice | conj |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 practice | punct |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pupil | det |
| 15 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 needs | nsubj |
| 16 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 needs | advmod |
| 17 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 means | ccomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 needs | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | benefit in a quote | would | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | need | present | the pupil | reading | badly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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:17.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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