Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 5
"Not our finest hour" is a humorous way of saying a bad failure or embarrassment.
Who acts: finest hour, bad failure · What happens: be, say · To what, where: humorous way · 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 (finest hour, bad failure), 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 | _ | 5 hour | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hour | advmod |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hour | nmod:poss |
| 4 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 hour | amod |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 way | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hour | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 way | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | humorous | humorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 saying | mark |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 way | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 failure | det |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 failure | amod |
| 15 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saying | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 embarrassment | cc |
| 17 | embarrassment | embarrassment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 failure | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | our finest hour | a humorous way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | a bad failure or embarrassment | a humorous way not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=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:5.
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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