Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness, sentence 7
"A happy accident" means a mistake that turned out well.
Who acts: happy accident, mistake · What happens: mean, turn out · To what, where: mistake
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 (happy accident, mistake), 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 accident | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 accident | det |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 accident | amod |
| 4 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 accident | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mistake | det |
| 8 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mistake | acl:relcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 turned | compound:prt |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 turned | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a happy accident | a mistake | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic | ||||
| 2 | turn out | past | a mistake | well property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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:035-mistakes-and-stupidity.lesson:7.
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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