--- title: "Not working to her full potential" is a polite way to say she is la… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics description: "Not working to her full potential" is a polite way to say she is lazy. Who acts: working, way. 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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 20 "Not working to her full potential" is a polite way to say she is lazy. **Who acts:** working, way · **What happens:** not work, be, say · **To what, where:** polite way · **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, way), 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:20 # text = "Not working to her full potential" is a polite way to say she is lazy. # 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 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 csubj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 potential potential NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **work** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | to way's full potential | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | working | a polite way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | way | | | | | lazy *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:20`. **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. **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…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/19/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: school rep…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/)