Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 3

For example, "Tom has his own way of doing things" usually means Tom does not follow the teacher's instructions.

Who acts: Tom, own way, teacher · What happens: have, do, mean, not follow, instruct · To what, where: own way, things, instructions · 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 (Tom, own way, teacher), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 example	case
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 means	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 means	csubj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 doing	mark
11	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 way	acl
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 doing	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
14	usually	usually	ADV	_	15 means	advmod
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 follow	nsubj
17	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 follow	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 follow	advmod
19	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 means	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 teacher	det
21	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 instructions	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 teacher	case
23	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 follow	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	Tom	Tom's own way		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
2	do in a quote	gerund	Tom's own way not said here	things		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
3	mean	present			for example; usually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not follow	present · do-support	Tom	the teacher's instructions		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme
5	instruct		the teacher			nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:3.

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 ×2. 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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