Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 6
"Needs some TLC" means a place is in bad condition and needs repairs; TLC stands for "tender loving care".
Who acts: Needs TLC, place, TLC · What happens: mean, be, need, stand · To what, where: bad condition, repairs · 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: who acts (Needs TLC, place, TLC), 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 | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 TLC | compound |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 TLC | det |
| 4 | TLC | tlc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 TLC | 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 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 condition | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 condition | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 condition | case |
| 11 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 condition | amod |
| 12 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 needs | cc |
| 14 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | conj |
| 15 | repairs | repair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 needs | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 stands | punct |
| 17 | TLC | tlc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stands | nsubj |
| 18 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | parataxis |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 care | case |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 care | punct |
| 21 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 care | compound |
| 22 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 care | amod |
| 23 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stands | obl |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 care | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | some Needs TLC | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a place | bad condition | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | need | present | some Needs TLC not said here | repairs | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot repair=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stand | present | TLC | for tender loving care | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for care=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:042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:6.
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 ×2, 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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