Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 9
"Easily distracted" means the pupil does not pay attention.
Who acts: pupil · What happens: distract, mean, not pay · To what, where: attention · 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 | _ | 3 distracted | punct |
| 2 | Easily | easily | ADV | _ | 3 distracted | advmod |
| 3 | distracted | distract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 means | csubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 distracted | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pupil | det |
| 7 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pay | nsubj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pay | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 pay | advmod |
| 10 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 means | ccomp |
| 11 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pay | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | distract in a quote | participle | easily property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not pay | present · do-support | the pupil | attention | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
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:9.
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 ×2, 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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