Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 12
"Reluctant reader" means a child who dislikes or struggles with reading.
Who acts: Reluctant reader, child · What happens: mean, dislike, struggle · To what, where: child
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 (Reluctant reader, child), 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 reader | punct |
| 2 | Reluctant | reluctant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reader | amod |
| 3 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 reader | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 dislikes | nsubj |
| 9 | dislikes | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 child | acl:relcl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 struggles | cc |
| 11 | struggles | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dislikes | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 reading | case |
| 13 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 struggles | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | Reluctant reader | a child | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | ||||
| 2 | dislike | present | a child | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | struggle | present | a child not said here | with reading | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with reading=Co-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:12.
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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