Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 7
"Capable of more" means the pupil is underachieving: doing less well than he or she could.
Who acts: Capable, pupil · What happens: mean, be, do · 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 (Capable, 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 Capable | punct |
| 2 | Capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 more | case |
| 4 | more | more | NOUN | _ | 2 Capable | nmod |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Capable | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pupil | det |
| 8 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 underachieving | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 underachieving | cop |
| 10 | underachieving | underachieve | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | ccomp |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 doing | punct |
| 12 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 underachieving | conj |
| 13 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 well | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 doing | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 could | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 could | nsubj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 she | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 he | conj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 well | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Capable of more | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the pupil | underachieve property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | gerund | the pupil not said here | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:7.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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