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title: "Requires improvement" is an official UK inspection grade meaning th… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Requires improvement" is an official UK inspection grade meaning the school is poor. Who acts: improvement, official UK inspection grade, school. 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 
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# Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 24

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"Requires improvement" is an official UK inspection grade meaning the school is poor.

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**Who acts:** improvement, official UK inspection grade, school · **What happens:** require, be, mean · **To what, where:** official UK inspection grade · **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 (improvement, official UK inspection grade, school), 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:24
# text = "Requires improvement" is an official UK inspection grade meaning the school is poor.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Requires	require	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	appos	_	_
3	improvement	improvement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	inspection	inspection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	grade	grade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | improvement | a official UK inspection grade |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | gerund | a official UK inspection grade *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | the school |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |

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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:24`.

**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): no change. **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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