Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 8
"Invited to see the head" means sent to the head teacher to be punished.
What happens: invite, see, mean, send, punish · To what, where: head, head teacher · 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: 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 | _ | 2 Invited | punct |
| 2 | Invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 means | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 see | mark |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Invited | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 head | det |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Invited | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 means | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 teacher | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 teacher | det |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 teacher | compound |
| 13 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 punished | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 punished | aux:pass |
| 16 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sent | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite in a quote | participle | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | see not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | send | participle | the head teacher | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to teacher=Destination | |||||
| 5 | punish | to-infinitive · passive | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» |
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:8.
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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