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title: Some school words are official jargon, like "approaching standard" i… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some school words are official jargon, like "approaching standard" in the US or "requires improvement" for a UK school. Who acts: school words. 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 tre
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# Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 4

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Some school words are official jargon, like "approaching standard" in the US or "requires improvement" for a UK school.

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**Who acts:** school words · **What happens:** be, approach, require · **To what, where:** official jargon, standard, improvement

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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 (school words), 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:4
# text = Some school words are official jargon, like "approaching standard" in the US or "requires improvement" for a UK school.
# 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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	jargon	jargon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	appos	_	_
11	standard	standard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	requires	require	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	improvement	improvement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | some school words | official jargon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **approach** *in a quote* | gerund |  | standard |  |  |  | in the US | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=Theme |
| 3 | **require** *in a quote* | present |  | improvement |  |  |  | for a UK school | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme improvement=Precondition |

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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:4`.

**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/).

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