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title: "Enthusiastic contributor" can mean the pupil shouts out answers wit… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Enthusiastic contributor" can mean the pupil shouts out answers without waiting. Who acts: Enthusiastic contributor, 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 pragmatic
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# Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 16

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"Enthusiastic contributor" can mean the pupil shouts out answers without waiting.

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**Who acts:** Enthusiastic contributor, pupil · **What happens:** mean, shout out, wait · **To what, where:** answers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Enthusiastic contributor, 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:16
# text = "Enthusiastic contributor" can mean the pupil shouts out answers without waiting.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Enthusiastic	enthusiastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	contributor	contributor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
11	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **mean** | can | Enthusiastic contributor |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **shout out** *speech: express* | present | the pupil | answers |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund | the pupil *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:16`.

**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): 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/).

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