Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 1

A teacher may say "a quiet word" instead of "a telling-off", and an official report may say "special measures" for a failing school.

Who acts: teacher, official report · What happens: say, fail · To what, where: quiet word, special measures · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (teacher, official report), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 word	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 word	punct
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	16 off	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 off	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 off	det
14	telling	telling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 off	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 off	punct
16	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 off	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 say	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 say	cc
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 report	det
21	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 report	amod
22	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 say	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 say	aux
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	conj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 measures	punct
26	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 measures	amod
27	measures	measure	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 say	obj
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 measures	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 school	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 school	det
31	failing	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 school	amod
32	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 say	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	may	a teacher	a quiet word	instead a telling off	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	say speech: assert	may	a official report	special measures	for a failing school	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent measure=Topic
3	fail	gerund				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «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:017-school-and-pets.lesson:1.

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 ×4. 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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