Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 15
"Needs improvement", on a school report, means the work is poor or failing.
Who acts: work · What happens: need, mean, be, fail · To what, where: improvement, school report · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Needs | punct |
| 2 | Needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | improvement | improvement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Needs | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Needs | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 report | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 report | det |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 report | compound |
| 9 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 report | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Needs | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 work | det |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 poor | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 poor | cop |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | ccomp |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 failing | cc |
| 17 | failing | fail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 poor | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need in a quote | present | improvement | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | a school report | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the work | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fail | gerund | the work not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:15.
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 ×2. 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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