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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 (teacher, official report), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:017-school-and-pets.lesson:1 # text = A teacher may say "a quiet word" instead of "a telling-off", and an official report may say "special measures" for a failing school. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 017-school-and-pets.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, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 16 case _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 telling telling NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 off off NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 26 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 measures measure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 failing fail VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | may | a teacher | a quiet word | | | | instead a telling off | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | may | a official report | special measures | | | | for a failing school | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent measure=Topic | | 3 | **fail** | gerund | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:017-school-and-pets.lesson:1`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: school rep…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/)