Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 22
"Additional needs" (official UK term) means special educational needs or a disability.
Who acts: Additional needs · What happens: mean · To what, where: special educational needs
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 (Additional needs), 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 needs | punct |
| 2 | Additional | additional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 needs | amod |
| 3 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 needs | punct |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 term | punct |
| 6 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 term | amod |
| 7 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 term | compound |
| 8 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 term | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 needs | amod |
| 12 | educational | educational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 needs | amod |
| 13 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 means | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 disability | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 disability | det |
| 16 | disability | disability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 needs | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Additional needs | special educational needs or a disability | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=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:22.
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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