Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 11
"Vivid imagination" on a report can mean the pupil tells fibs or daydreams.
Who acts: Vivid imagination, pupil · What happens: mean, tell · To what, where: fibs · 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 (Vivid imagination, 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 imagination | punct |
| 2 | Vivid | vivid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 imagination | amod |
| 3 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagination | 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 | 3 imagination | nmod |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 mean | aux |
| 9 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pupil | det |
| 11 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tells | nsubj |
| 12 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mean | ccomp |
| 13 | fibs | fib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tells | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 daydreams | cc |
| 15 | daydreams | daydream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fibs | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | can | Vivid imagination on a report | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | the pupil | fibs or daydreams | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fib=Recipient |
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:11.
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. 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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