Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 8
"Teething problems" (UK) means faults in something new.
Who acts: Teething problems · What happens: mean · To what, where: faults
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 (Teething problems), 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 problems | punct |
| 2 | Teething | teethe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 problems | compound |
| 3 | problems | problem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 problems | punct |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 UK | punct |
| 6 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 problems | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 UK | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 means | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 something | case |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 faults | nmod |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 something | amod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Teething problems | faults | in something | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot fault=Theme in something=Attribute |
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:8.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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