Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 4
The kind words protect feelings, but you still need to know what really happened.
Who acts: kind words, you · What happens: protect, need, know, happen · To what, where: feelings · 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 (kind words, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 words | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 protect | nsubj |
| 4 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 protect | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 need | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 need | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 need | nsubj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 need | advmod |
| 10 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 protect | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 know | mark |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 need | xcomp |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 happened | advmod |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 protect | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | present | the kind words | feelings | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | need | present | you | still | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:4.
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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