Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 22
"Needs some TLC" ("tender loving care") means a place is in bad condition and needs repairs.
Who acts: Needs, place · What happens: mean, be, need · To what, where: bad condition, repairs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising» 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 (Needs, place), 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 Needs | punct |
| 2 | Needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 means | nsubj |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 TLC | det |
| 4 | TLC | tlc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Needs | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 TLC | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 care | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 care | punct |
| 8 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 care | compound |
| 9 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 care | amod |
| 10 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 TLC | appos |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 care | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 care | punct |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 condition | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 condition | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 condition | case |
| 18 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 condition | amod |
| 19 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 needs | cc |
| 21 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 condition | conj |
| 22 | repairs | repair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 needs | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 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 | Needs | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a place | bad condition | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | need | present | a place not said here | repairs | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot repair=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:022-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents.lesson:22.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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