--- title: "Working towards" on a UK report means not yet meeting the expected… — Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour… · tree and pragmatics description: "Working towards" on a UK report means not yet meeting the expected standard. Who acts: Working. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [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/22/) [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/) / 22 # Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers, sentence 22 "Working towards" on a UK report means not yet meeting the expected standard. **Who acts:** Working · **What happens:** work, mean, not meet, expect · **To what, where:** expected standard · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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: who acts (Working), 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:22 # text = "Working towards" on a UK report means not yet meeting the expected standard. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj 3 towards towards ADP IN _ 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advmod 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 11 yet yet ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 meeting meet VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 ccomp _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 expected expect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 standard standard NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | on a UK report | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on report=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | Working | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **meet** | gerund | | the expected standard | | | yet | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=Co-Agent | | 4 | **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](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:22`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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: children's…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/21/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: children's…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/)