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title: "Emerging" on a UK report means well below the expected level. — Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Emerging" on a UK report means well below the expected level. Who acts: Emerging. 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 of every clause
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# Soft words for hard things: children's behaviour and school reports and teachers, sentence 23

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"Emerging" on a UK report means well below the expected level.

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**Who acts:** Emerging · **What happens:** emerge, mean, expect · **To what, where:** UK report, expected level · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Emerging), 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:23
# text = "Emerging" on a UK report means well below the expected level.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Emerging	emerge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
10	below	below	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **emerge** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  | a UK report |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on report=Location |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Emerging |  |  | the expected level |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **expect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:23`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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