Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 16
"Unsuccessful", in a letter about a job or a place, means rejected.
Who acts: Unsuccessful · What happens: mean, reject · To what, where: letter · 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 (Unsuccessful), 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 | _ | 2 Unsuccessful | punct |
| 2 | Unsuccessful | unsuccessful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Unsuccessful | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 letter | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 letter | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 letter | det |
| 7 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | obl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 job | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 job | det |
| 10 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 letter | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 place | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 job | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 means | punct |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | rejected | reject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 means | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- fragment
- 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 | Unsuccessful | a letter about a job or a place | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | reject | participle | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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:16.
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 ×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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