Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 1

Some phrases are kind, like "not quite there yet" for a drawing that still needs work; others are funny, like "I dropped a clanger" for an embarrassing mistake.

Who acts: phrases, drawing, others, letter · What happens: be, need, drop · To what, where: work, clanger

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 (phrases, drawing, others, letter), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 phrases	det
2	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kind	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 there	mark
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 there	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 there	advmod
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 there	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 kind	conj
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	10 there	advmod
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 there	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 drawing	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 drawing	det
15	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 there	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 needs	nsubj
17	still	still	ADV	_	18 needs	advmod
18	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 drawing	acl:relcl
19	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 needs	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 funny	punct
21	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 funny	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 funny	cop
23	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kind	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dropped	punct
25	like	like	SCONJ	_	28 dropped	mark
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 dropped	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 dropped	nsubj
28	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 funny	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 clanger	det
30	clanger	clanger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dropped	obj
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 dropped	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 mistake	case
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 mistake	det
34	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 mistake	amod
35	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dropped	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	some phrases			kind property	tree rules
2	need	present	a drawing	work	still		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot work=Theme
3	is	present	others			funny property	tree rules
4	drop in a quote	past	a letter = letter	a clanger		for a embarrassing mistake	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clanger=Theme

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:034-failure-and-mistakes.lesson:1.

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): 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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