Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 20
"Not working to her full potential" is a polite way to say she is lazy.
Who acts: working, way · What happens: not work, be, say · To what, where: polite way · 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, way), 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 working | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 working | advmod |
| 3 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 way | csubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 potential | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 potential | nmod:poss |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 potential | amod |
| 7 | potential | potential | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 working | obl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 working | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 way | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 11 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 way | acl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lazy | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lazy | cop |
| 17 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 say | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not work in a quote | gerund | to way's full potential | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | working | a polite way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | way | lazy 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:20.
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. 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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