--- title: "Confident speaker" on a report can mean the pupil talks over other… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics description: "Confident speaker" on a report can mean the pupil talks over other children. Who acts: Confident speaker, 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/12/) [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/) / 12 # Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 12 "Confident speaker" on a report can mean the pupil talks over other children. **Who acts:** Confident speaker, pupil · **What happens:** mean, talk · **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 (Confident speaker, 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:12 # text = "Confident speaker" on a report can mean the pupil talks over other children. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Confident confident ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 speaker speaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det 11 pupil pupil NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound 12 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 13 over over ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod 16 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | can | Confident speaker on a report | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **talk** | present | the pupil | | | | | over other children | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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:016-school-reports.lesson:12`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/11/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: school rep…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/)