Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 13
"An unforced error" (jargon, from tennis) means a mistake one made all by oneself.
Who acts: unforced error, one · What happens: mean, make · To what, where: mistake, all
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 (unforced error, one), 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 | _ | 12 means | punct |
| 2 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 error | det |
| 3 | unforced | unforced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 error | amod |
| 4 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 error | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 jargon | punct |
| 7 | jargon | jargon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 error | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tennis | punct |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 tennis | case |
| 10 | tennis | tennis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jargon | nmod |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 jargon | punct |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mistake | det |
| 14 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | obj |
| 15 | one | one | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 mistake | acl:relcl |
| 17 | all | all | PRON | PronType=Tot | 16 made | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 oneself | case |
| 19 | oneself | oneself | PRON | PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 made | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 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 unforced error | a mistake | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | one | all | by oneself | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset all=Product |
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:13.
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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