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title: Teachers write reports that parents read, so they choose kind, caref… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Teachers write reports that parents read, so they choose kind, careful words instead of blunt ones. Who acts: Teachers, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 0

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Teachers write reports that parents read, so they choose kind, careful words instead of blunt ones.

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**Who acts:** Teachers, parents · **What happens:** write, read, choose · **To what, where:** reports, kind careful words

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Teachers, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:016-school-reports.lesson:0
# text = Teachers write reports that parents read, so they choose kind, careful words instead of blunt ones.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 016-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): no change
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
5	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	blunt	blunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | Teachers | reports |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent report=Theme |
| 2 | **read** | present | parents | reports |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 3 | **choose** | present | parents *= parent* | kind careful words |  |  |  | instead blunt ones | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |

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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:016-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): no change. **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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