Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 24
"Requires improvement" is an official UK inspection grade meaning the school is poor.
Who acts: improvement, official UK inspection grade, school · What happens: require, be, mean · To what, where: official UK inspection grade · 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 (improvement, official UK inspection grade, school), 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 Requires | punct |
| 2 | Requires | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 improvement | appos |
| 3 | improvement | improvement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grade | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 improvement | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 grade | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 grade | det |
| 7 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grade | amod |
| 8 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 grade | compound |
| 9 | inspection | inspection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grade | compound |
| 10 | grade | grade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 grade | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 school | det |
| 13 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 poor | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 poor | cop |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 meaning | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grade | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require in a quote | present | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | improvement | a official UK inspection grade | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | gerund | a official UK inspection grade not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the school | poor 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:24.
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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