Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 6
"Needs encouragement" on a report usually means the pupil is lazy or unmotivated (does not want to try).
Who acts: pupil · What happens: need, mean, be, not want, try · To what, where: encouragement, report · 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 (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 Needs | punct |
| 2 | Needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | encouragement | encouragement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Needs | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Needs | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 report | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 report | det |
| 7 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Needs | obl |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 means | advmod |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Needs | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pupil | det |
| 11 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lazy | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lazy | cop |
| 13 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 means | ccomp |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 unmotivated | cc |
| 15 | unmotivated | unmotivated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lazy | conj |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 want | punct |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 want | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 want | advmod |
| 19 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 unmotivated | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 try | mark |
| 21 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 want | xcomp |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 want | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need in a quote | present | encouragement | a report | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the pupil | lazy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the pupil not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not want | present · do-support | the pupil not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | try not said to happen | to-infinitive | the pupil not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:6.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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