Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 20
"A damp squib" (UK) means a disappointing failure, like a firework that does not go off.
Who acts: damp squib, firework · What happens: mean, not go off · To what, where: disappointing failure
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 (damp squib, firework), 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 squib | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 squib | det |
| 3 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 squib | amod |
| 4 | squib | squib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 squib | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 UK | punct |
| 7 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 squib | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 UK | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 failure | det |
| 11 | disappointing | disappointing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 failure | amod |
| 12 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 firework | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 firework | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 firework | det |
| 16 | firework | firework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 failure | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 go | nsubj |
| 18 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 go | advmod |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 firework | acl |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 go | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- 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 | a damp squib | a disappointing failure | like a firework | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent failure=Topic | |||
| 2 | not go off | present · do-support | a firework | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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:20.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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