Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 17
"We've decided to go in a different direction" means you have been rejected.
Who acts: We · What happens: decide, go, mean, reject · To what, where: different direction, you · 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 | _ | 4 decided | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 decided | nsubj |
| 3 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 decided | aux |
| 4 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 means | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 decided | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 direction | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 direction | det |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 direction | amod |
| 10 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 decided | punct |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 rejected | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 rejected | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 rejected | aux:pass |
| 16 | rejected | reject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 means | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide in a quote | present · perfect | We | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | a different direction | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | reject | present · perfect · passive | you | vn reject-77.2-1 «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:17.
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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