Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 18
"A correction", on the stock market (where shares, small parts of companies, are bought and sold), means a sharp fall in prices.
Who acts: correction · What happens: buy, sell, mean · To what, where: shares, sharp fall
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 (correction), 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 correction | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 correction | det |
| 3 | correction | correction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 correction | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 market | punct |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 market | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 market | det |
| 8 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 market | compound |
| 9 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 correction | nmod |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 bought | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 bought | advmod |
| 12 | shares | share | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 parts | punct |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 parts | amod |
| 15 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shares | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 companies | case |
| 17 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 parts | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shares | punct |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 bought | aux:pass |
| 20 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 market | acl:relcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sold | cc |
| 22 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 bought | conj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 bought | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 correction | punct |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 fall | det |
| 27 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fall | amod |
| 28 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 means | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 prices | case |
| 30 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fall | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | present · passive | shares small parts of companies | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sell | participle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | a correction on the stock market | a sharp fall | in prices | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot fall=Theme in price=Attribute |
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:18.
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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