Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 5
"Dropped a clanger" (UK slang) means made an embarrassing mistake.
What happens: drop, mean, make · To what, where: clanger, embarrassing mistake · 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: 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 Dropped | punct |
| 2 | Dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 means | csubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 clanger | det |
| 4 | clanger | clanger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Dropped | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 clanger | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 slang | punct |
| 7 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 slang | compound |
| 8 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clanger | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 slang | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 means | ccomp |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mistake | det |
| 13 | embarrassing | embarrassing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mistake | amod |
| 14 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop in a quote | past | a clanger | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clanger=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | make | participle | a embarrassing mistake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product |
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:5.
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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