Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 14
"A pivot" (US business jargon) means a change of plan after the first plan failed.
Who acts: pivot, first plan, plan · What happens: mean, fail, change · To what, where: change
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 (pivot, first plan, plan), 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 | _ | 10 means | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pivot | det |
| 3 | pivot | pivot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pivot | punct |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 jargon | punct |
| 6 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 jargon | compound |
| 7 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jargon | compound |
| 8 | jargon | jargon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pivot | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 jargon | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 change | det |
| 12 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 plan | case |
| 14 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 change | nmod |
| 15 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 failed | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 plan | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 plan | amod |
| 18 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 failed | nsubj |
| 19 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 means | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 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 pivot | a change of plan | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fail | past | the first plan | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | change | plan | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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:14.
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): R5-strong ×3. 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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