Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 21
"Not ideal" (mostly UK) means bad.
Who acts: ideal · What happens: mean
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 (ideal), 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 | _ | 3 ideal | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | ADV | Polarity=Neg | 3 ideal | advmod |
| 3 | ideal | ideal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ideal | punct |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 UK | punct |
| 6 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 7 UK | advmod |
| 7 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ideal | parataxis |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 UK | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 means | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | ideal | bad property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V 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:21.
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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