--- title: "Has his own way of doing things" means he does not follow instructi… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics description: "Has his own way of doing things" means he does not follow instructions. Who acts: own way, pupil. 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 pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/11/) [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: school rep…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/) / 11 # Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 11 "Has his own way of doing things" means he does not follow instructions. **Who acts:** own way, pupil · **What happens:** have, do, mean, not follow · **To what, where:** things, instructions · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (own way, pupil), 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:11 # text = "Has his own way of doing things" means he does not follow instructions. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 of of SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 15 instructions instruction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obj 16 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | pupil's own way *not said here* | things | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 3 | **mean** | present | pupil's own way | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **follow** | present · do-support | pupil | instructions | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme | 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:016-school-reports.lesson:11`. **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: school rep…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/10/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: school rep…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/)