--- title: "Natural leader" can be spin for bossy; spin means choosing nice-sou… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics description: "Natural leader" can be spin for bossy; spin means choosing nice-sounding words to make something bad sound good. Who acts: Natural leader, spin, something. 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 d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/14/) [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/) / 14 # Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 14 "Natural leader" can be spin for bossy; spin means choosing nice-sounding words to make something bad sound good. **Who acts:** Natural leader, spin, something · **What happens:** be, mean, choose, sound, make · **To what, where:** spin, sounding words, something · **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 (Natural leader, spin, something), 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:14 # text = "Natural leader" can be spin for bossy; spin means choosing nice-sounding words to make something bad sound good. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 7 spin spin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 bossy bossy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 spin spin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 13 choosing choose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 ccomp _ _ 14 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 16 sounding sound VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 amod _ _ 17 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl 20 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 obj _ _ 21 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 22 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 23 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | can | Natural leader | spin | | | | for bossy | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | spin | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **choose** | gerund | | sounding words | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 4 | **sound** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | | something | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sound** | infinitive | something *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:14`. **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, 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: school rep…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/13/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: school rep…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/)