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title: "Pivot" often means a change of plan because the first plan failed. — Soft words for hard things: business and adverti… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Pivot" often means a change of plan because the first plan failed. Who acts: Pivot, first plan, plan. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 15

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"Pivot" often means a change of plan because the first plan failed.

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**Who acts:** Pivot, first plan, plan · **What happens:** mean, fail, change · **To what, where:** change

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» 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 (Pivot, first plan, plan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:023-fees-bugs-and-spin.lesson:15
# text = "Pivot" often means a change of plan because the first plan failed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 023-fees-bugs-and-spin.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	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Pivot	pivot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
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	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
15	.	.	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 | Pivot | a change of plan |  |  |  | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Topic |
| 2 | **fail** | past | the first plan |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **change** |  | plan |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: of=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:023-fees-bugs-and-spin.lesson:15`.

**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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