--- title: Parents and teachers often describe a child's problems in kind, posi… — Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour… · tree and pragmatics description: Parents and teachers often describe a child's problems in kind, positive-sounding words so the child and family are not hurt. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: children's…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/) / 0 # Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers, sentence 0 Parents and teachers often describe a child's problems in kind, positive-sounding words so the child and family are not hurt. **What happens:** describe, sound, not hurt · **To what, where:** problems, kind positive sounding words, child This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers» 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:015-behaviour-and-school-reports.lesson:0 # text = Parents and teachers often describe a child's problems in kind, positive-sounding words so the child and family are not hurt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 015-behaviour-and-school-reports.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 3 teachers teacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj 4 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 describe describe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 problems problem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 11 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 positive positive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 sounding sound VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 amod _ _ 16 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 17 so so SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **describe** | infinitive | | a child's problems | | kind positive sounding words | | often *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent problem=Theme | | 2 | **sound** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **hurt** | present · passive | | the child and family | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:015-behaviour-and-school-reports.lesson:0`. **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. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: relations…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/23/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: children's…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/)