Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes, sentence 14
"The luck of the draw" means it was chance, not your fault.
Who acts: luck, your · What happens: mean, be, fault · To what, where: chance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» 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 (luck, your), 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 | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 luck | det |
| 3 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 draw | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 draw | det |
| 6 | draw | draw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 luck | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 luck | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 chance | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 chance | cop |
| 11 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fault | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 fault | advmod |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fault | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chance | conj |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | mean | present | the luck of the draw | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | luck | chance and your fault | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fault | your | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:032-religion-fate-failure.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): R6-punct-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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