Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 18
"Has made some progress" often means very little progress.
What happens: make, mean · To what, where: progress, little progress · 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: 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 made | punct |
| 2 | Has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 means | csubj |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 progress | det |
| 5 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 means | advmod |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 little | advmod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 progress | amod |
| 11 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present · perfect | some progress | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset progress=Product | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | little progress | often property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent progress=Topic |
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:18.
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.
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