Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 7
"A hiccup" means a problem or failure, made to sound small.
Who acts: hiccup, problem · What happens: mean, make, sound · To what, where: problem
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 (hiccup, problem), 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 hiccup | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hiccup | det |
| 3 | hiccup | hiccup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hiccup | 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 problem | det |
| 7 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 failure | cc |
| 9 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 problem | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 problem | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sound | mark |
| 13 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | xcomp |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sound | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a hiccup | a problem or failure | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a problem or failure not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sound | to-infinitive | a problem or failure not said here | small property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1. 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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