--- title: "Needs encouragement" on a report usually means the pupil is lazy or… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics description: "Needs encouragement" on a report usually means the pupil is lazy or unmotivated (does not want to try). Who acts: 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 o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/6/) [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/) / 6 # Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 6 "Needs encouragement" on a report usually means the pupil is lazy or unmotivated (does not want to try). **Who acts:** pupil · **What happens:** need, mean, be, not want, try · **To what, where:** encouragement, report · **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 (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:6 # text = "Needs encouragement" on a report usually means the pupil is lazy or unmotivated (does not want to try). # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 encouragement encouragement NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 8 usually usually ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 pupil pupil NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 unmotivated unmotivated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 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 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** *in a quote* | present | | encouragement | | a report | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | the pupil | | | | | lazy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | the pupil *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | the pupil *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **try** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the pupil *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:6`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/4/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: school rep…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/)