--- title: "Would benefit from" (more practice, more reading) means the pupil b… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics description: "Would benefit from" (more practice, more reading) means the pupil badly needs it. Who acts: 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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 17 "Would benefit from" (more practice, more reading) means the pupil badly needs it. **Who acts:** pupil · **What happens:** benefit, mean, need · **To what, where:** reading · **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 (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:17 # text = "Would benefit from" (more practice, more reading) means the pupil badly needs it. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 benefit benefit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj 4 from from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 8 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nsubj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 11 reading reading NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pupil pupil NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 17 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **benefit** *in a quote* | would | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **need** | present | the pupil | reading | | | | badly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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:17`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/16/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: school rep…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/)