Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 6
"A setback" means a failure, made to sound like a small step back.
Who acts: setback, failure · What happens: mean, make, sound · To what, where: failure
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 (setback, 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 | _ | 3 setback | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 setback | det |
| 3 | setback | setback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 setback | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 failure | det |
| 7 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 failure | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sound | mark |
| 11 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | xcomp |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 step | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 step | det |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 step | amod |
| 15 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sound | obl |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 sound | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a setback | a failure | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent failure=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a failure not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sound | to-infinitive | a failure not said here | like a small step | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:6.
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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