Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 18
"A misunderstanding" can hide a mistake or a quarrel.
Who acts: misunderstanding · What happens: hide · To what, where: mistake
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 (misunderstanding), 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 | _ | 6 hide | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 misunderstanding | det |
| 3 | misunderstanding | misunderstanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hide | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 misunderstanding | punct |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hide | aux |
| 6 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mistake | det |
| 8 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hide | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 quarrel | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 quarrel | det |
| 11 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mistake | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | can | a misunderstanding | a mistake or a quarrel | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Patient |
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:18.
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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