--- title: For example, "Tom has his own way of doing things" usually means Tom… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics description: For example, "Tom has his own way of doing things" usually means Tom does not follow the teacher's instructions. Who acts: Tom, own way, teacher. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, own way, teacher), 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:3 # text = For example, "Tom has his own way of doing things" usually means Tom does not follow the teacher's instructions. # 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 ×2 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 5 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 csubj _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 of of SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 usually usually ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 instructions instruction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Tom | Tom's own way | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | Tom's own way *not said here* | things | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | for example; usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **follow** | present · do-support | Tom | the teacher's instructions | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme | | 5 | **instruct** | | the teacher | | | | | | nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:3`. **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 ×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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: school rep…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/)