Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 1

Teachers and bosses use gentle words to be kind, such as "room for improvement" on a school report, which really means the work is poor.

Who acts: Teachers, room, work · What happens: use, be, mean · To what, where: gentle words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Teachers, room, work), 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	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bosses	cc
3	bosses	boss	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Teachers	conj
4	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 kind	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 kind	cop
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 use	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 room	punct
11	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	14 room	case
12	as	as	ADP	_	11 such	fixed
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 room	punct
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 improvement	case
16	improvement	improvement	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 room	nmod
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 room	punct
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 report	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 report	det
20	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 report	compound
21	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 room	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 means	nsubj
24	really	really	ADV	_	25 means	advmod
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 room	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 work	det
27	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 poor	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 poor	cop
29	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 means	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	Teachers and bosses	gentle words		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent word=Theme clause=Eventuality
2	is	to-infinitive	Teachers and bosses not said here		kind property	tree rules
3	mean	present	room for improvement on a school report			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	the work		poor property	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:033-failure-and-mistakes.lesson:1.

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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