Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 8
"A glitch" means a fault or bug, usually in a machine or computer.
Who acts: glitch · What happens: mean · To what, where: fault
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 (glitch), 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 means | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 glitch | det |
| 3 | glitch | glitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 glitch | 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 fault | det |
| 7 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 bug | cc |
| 9 | bug | bug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fault | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 machine | punct |
| 11 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 14 machine | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 machine | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 machine | det |
| 14 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 computer | cc |
| 16 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 machine | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a glitch | a fault or bug | in a machine or computer | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot fault=Theme in machine=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:8.
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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