Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness, sentence 1

Others shift the blame: when a helpdesk says "user error", it means the machine is fine and the person using it got it wrong.

Who acts: Others, helpdesk, it, machine, person · What happens: shift, say, mean, be, use, get · To what, where: blame, user error, person, machine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness» 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 (Others, helpdesk, it, machine), 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	Others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shift	nsubj
2	shift	shift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 blame	det
4	blame	blame	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shift	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 says	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 helpdesk	det
8	helpdesk	helpdesk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 means	advcl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 error	punct
11	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 error	compound
12	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 error	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 means	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 means	nsubj
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shift	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 machine	det
18	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fine	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fine	cop
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 means	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 got	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 person	det
23	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 got	nsubj
24	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 person	acl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 using	obj
26	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fine	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 got	obj
28	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 got	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shift	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shift	present	Others	the blame		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer blame=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	a helpdesk	user error		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent error=Topic
3	mean	present	it			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	the machine		fine property	tree rules
5	use	gerund	the person not said here	person		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	get	past	the person	machine	wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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:035-mistakes-and-stupidity.lesson:1.

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. 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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