Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 9
"Deferred success" is a joking UK phrase for failure.
Who acts: Deferred success · What happens: defer, joke, be · To what, where: joking UK phrase · 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 (Deferred success), 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 success | punct |
| 2 | Deferred | defer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 success | amod |
| 3 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 phrase | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 success | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 phrase | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 phrase | det |
| 7 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 phrase | amod |
| 8 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 phrase | compound |
| 9 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 failure | case |
| 11 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 phrase | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 phrase | 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 | defer in a quote | participle | vn acquiesce-95.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | joke speech: other | gerund | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | Deferred success | a joking UK phrase | for failure | 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:9.
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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