--- title: Bad luck gets soft words too: "fate had other plans" is a gentle way… — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs a… · tree and pragmatics description: Bad luck gets soft words too: "fate had other plans" is a gentle way of saying that something simply did not happen or went wrong. Who acts: Bad luck, fate, gentle way, something. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bad luck, fate, gentle way, 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:3 # text = Bad luck gets soft words too: "fate had other plans" is a gentle way of saying that something simply 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 1 Bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 11 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 plans plan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 18 of of SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 19 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 25 nsubj _ _ 22 simply simply ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 28 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | Bad luck | soft words | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | fate | other plans | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | | a gentle way | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a gentle way *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **happen** | past · do-support | something | | | | | simply *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **go** | past | something *not said here* | | | | | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.lesson:3`. **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. **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: drinking a…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/2/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/)