--- title: "Working at his own pace" means he is very slow. — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics description: "Working at his own pace" means he is very slow. Who acts: Working, 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/19/) [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/) / 19 # Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 19 "Working at his own pace" means he is very slow. **Who acts:** Working, pupil · **What happens:** work, mean, be · **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 (Working, 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:19 # text = "Working at his own pace" means he is very slow. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj 3 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 pace pace NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | at pupil's own pace | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pace=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | Working | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | pupil | | | | | slow *property* | tree rules | 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:19`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/18/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: school rep…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/)