Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 12
"A slip of the tongue" means saying the wrong word by mistake.
Who acts: slip, wrong word, tongue · What happens: mean, say, slip · 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 (slip, wrong word, tongue), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 slip | det |
| 3 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tongue | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tongue | det |
| 6 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slip | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 slip | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 means | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 word | det |
| 11 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 word | amod |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saying | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 mistake | case |
| 14 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saying | obl |
| 15 | . | . | 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 | a slip of the tongue | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert not said to happen | gerund | the wrong word | by mistake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | slip in a quote | the tongue | nom slip «act intransitive»: of=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:033-failure-and-mistakes.lesson:12.
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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