Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 11
"Needs encouragement" on a report usually means lazy, and "emerging" means well below the expected level.
What happens: need, mean, emerge, expect · To what, where: encouragement, report, expected level · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» 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 Needs | punct |
| 2 | Needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 means | csubj |
| 3 | encouragement | encouragement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Needs | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Needs | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 report | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 report | det |
| 7 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Needs | obl |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 means | advmod |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 means | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 means | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 means | cc |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 emerging | punct |
| 14 | emerging | emerge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 means | nsubj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 emerging | punct |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 means | conj |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 means | advmod |
| 18 | below | below | ADP | _ | 21 level | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 level | det |
| 20 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 level | amod |
| 21 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need in a quote | present | encouragement | a report | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot encouragement=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | lazy, usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | emerge in a quote | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | mean | present | the expected level | well property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | expect | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that 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:042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:11.
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 ×2. 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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