Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 19
"Working at his own pace" means he is very slow.
Who acts: Working, pupil · What happens: work, mean, be · 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 (Working, 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 Working | punct |
| 2 | Working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 means | csubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 pace | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pace | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pace | amod |
| 6 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Working | obl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Working | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 slow | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 slow | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 slow | advmod |
| 12 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | 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 | work in a quote | gerund | at pupil's own pace | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pace=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Working | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | pupil | slow property | tree rules |
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:19.
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 ×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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