Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 11
"Back to the drawing board" means the plan has failed and we must start again.
Who acts: drawing board, plan, we · What happens: mean, fail, start · 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 (drawing board, plan, we), 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 | _ | 6 board | punct |
| 2 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 6 board | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 board | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 board | det |
| 5 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 board | compound |
| 6 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 board | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 plan | det |
| 10 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 failed | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 failed | aux |
| 12 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 means | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 start | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 start | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 start | aux |
| 16 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 failed | conj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 start | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 | the drawing board | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fail | present · perfect | the plan | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | start | must | we | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:11.
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. 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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