Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 10
"Human error" (official) means someone made a mistake, without saying who.
Who acts: Human error, someone · What happens: mean, make, say · To what, where: mistake · 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 (Human error, someone), 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 error | punct |
| 2 | Human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 error | amod |
| 3 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 error | punct |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 official | punct |
| 6 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 error | parataxis |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 official | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mistake | det |
| 12 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saying | punct |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 saying | mark |
| 15 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 made | advcl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 saying | obj |
| 17 | . | . | 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 | Human error | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | past | someone | a mistake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | someone not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent who=Topic |
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:10.
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 ×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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