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title: "Fate had other plans" means that something did not happen or went w… — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs a… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Fate had other plans" means that something did not happen or went wrong. Who acts: Fate, something. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate, sentence 24

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"Fate had other plans" means that something did not happen or went wrong.

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**Who acts:** Fate, something · **What happens:** have, mean, not happen, go · **To what, where:** other plans · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» 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 (Fate, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.lesson:24
# text = "Fate had other plans" means that something did not happen or went wrong.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Fate	fate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:csubj
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Fate | other plans |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **happen** | past · do-support | something |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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 ×1, 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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