Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 15
"Lessons have been learned" (official) means we failed and we were blamed.
Who acts: we · What happens: learn, mean, fail, blame · To what, where: Lessons, we · 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 (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 | _ | 5 learned | punct |
| 2 | Lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 learned | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 learned | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 learned | aux:pass |
| 5 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 means | ccomp |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 learned | punct |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 official | punct |
| 8 | official | official | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 learned | parataxis |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 official | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 failed | nsubj |
| 12 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 means | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 blamed | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 blamed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 blamed | aux:pass |
| 16 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 failed | conj |
| 17 | . | . | 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 | learn in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Lessons | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | fail | past | we | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | blame | past · passive | we | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:15.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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