Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 14
"Late bloomer" means a child who is behind other children for now.
Who acts: Late bloomer, child · What happens: mean, be · 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 (Late bloomer, 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 bloomer | punct |
| 2 | Late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bloomer | amod |
| 3 | bloomer | bloomer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bloomer | 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 | 10 behind | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 behind | cop |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 child | acl:relcl |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 children | amod |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 behind | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 now | case |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 behind | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- other
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Late bloomer | a child | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a child | other children obl; behind property | tree rules |
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:14.
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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