Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 0
Schools soften bad news about trouble and failure, and families soften bad news about pets.
Who acts: Schools, families · What happens: soften · To what, where: bad news
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets» 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 (Schools, families), 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 | Schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 soften | nsubj |
| 2 | soften | soften | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 news | amod |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soften | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 trouble | case |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 news | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 failure | cc |
| 8 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trouble | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 soften | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 soften | cc |
| 11 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 soften | nsubj |
| 12 | soften | soften | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 soften | conj |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 news | amod |
| 14 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 soften | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 pets | case |
| 16 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 news | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 soften | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soften | present | Schools | bad news | about trouble and failure | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent news=Patient | |||
| 2 | soften | present | families | bad news | about pets | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent news=Patient |
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:017-school-and-pets.lesson:0.
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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