Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 3

Friends use jokey slang to laugh at their own mistakes: "it all went pear-shaped" or "I had a brain fart".

Who acts: Friends, mistake, Nobody · What happens: use, laugh, go, have, mistake · To what, where: jokey slang, own mistakes, brain fart

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 (Friends, mistake, Nobody), 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	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	jokey	jokey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slang	amod
4	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 laugh	mark
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 use	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 mistakes	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mistakes	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mistakes	amod
10	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laugh	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 use	conj
16	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shaped	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 pear	punct
18	shaped	shaped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 went	xcomp
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 went	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fart	det
25	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fart	compound
26	fart	fart	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	present	Friends	jokey slang			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slang=Patient
2	laugh	to-infinitive	Friends not said here		Friends's own mistakes		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go in a quote	past	mistake			all, shaped property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have in a quote	past	Nobody	a brain fart			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fart=Patient
5	mistake		Friends = friend				nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=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:3.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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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