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title: "Needs some TLC" ("tender loving care") means a place is in bad cond… — Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Needs some TLC" ("tender loving care") means a place is in bad condition and needs repairs. Who acts: Needs, place. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 22

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"Needs some TLC" ("tender loving care") means a place is in bad condition and needs repairs.

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**Who acts:** Needs, place · **What happens:** mean, be, need · **To what, where:** bad condition, repairs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising» 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 (Needs, place), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:022-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents.lesson:22
# text = "Needs some TLC" ("tender loving care") means a place is in bad condition and needs repairs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 022-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	TLC	tlc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
8	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	repairs	repair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | Needs |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | a place |  |  | bad condition |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **need** | present | a place *not said here* | repairs |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot repair=Theme |

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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:022-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents.lesson:22`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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