--- title: "Invited to see the head" means sent to the head teacher to be punis… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics description: "Invited to see the head" means sent to the head teacher to be punished. 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 pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/8/) [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/17-school-and-pets/) / 8 # Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 8 "Invited to see the head" means sent to the head teacher to be punished. **What happens:** invite, see, mean, send, punish · **To what, where:** head, head teacher · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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: 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:8 # text = "Invited to see the head" means sent to the head teacher to be punished. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Invited invite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 nsubj _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 ccomp _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 punished punish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl 17 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **invite** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **see** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | | the head | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **send** | participle | | | the head teacher | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to teacher=Destination | | 5 | **punish** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» | 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:8`. **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. **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…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/7/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: school rep…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/)