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title: "Reluctant reader" means a child who dislikes or struggles with read… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Reluctant reader" means a child who dislikes or struggles with reading. Who acts: Reluctant reader, child. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 12

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"Reluctant reader" means a child who dislikes or struggles with reading.

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**Who acts:** Reluctant reader, child · **What happens:** mean, dislike, struggle · **To what, where:** child

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets» 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 (Reluctant reader, child), 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:12
# text = "Reluctant reader" means a child who dislikes or struggles with reading.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Reluctant	reluctant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	dislikes	dislike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	struggles	struggle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **mean** | present | Reluctant reader | a child |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic |
| 2 | **dislike** | present | a child |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **struggle** | present | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with reading | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with reading=Co-Agent |

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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:017-school-and-pets.lesson:12`.

**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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