Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes, sentence 3
And some words spin a failure to sound better, such as calling a bad result "suboptimal" or a disaster "a blessing in disguise".
Who acts: words, failure · What happens: spin, sound, call · To what, where: failure, bad result · 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 (words, failure), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 spin | cc |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spin | nsubj |
| 4 | spin | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 failure | det |
| 6 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spin | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sound | mark |
| 8 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 failure | acl |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 sound | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 calling | punct |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 calling | mark |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 such | fixed |
| 13 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 failure | acl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 result | det |
| 15 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 result | amod |
| 16 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 calling | obj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 suboptimal | punct |
| 18 | suboptimal | suboptimal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 result | amod |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 suboptimal | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 disaster | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 disaster | det |
| 22 | disaster | disaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 result | conj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 blessing | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 blessing | det |
| 25 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 disaster | appos |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 disguise | case |
| 27 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 blessing | nmod |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 blessing | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spin | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present | some words | a failure | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent failure=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sound | to-infinitive | some words not said here | a failure not said here | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | call | gerund | a failure not said here | a bad result or a disaster | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent result=Recipient |
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:3.
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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