--- title: "A blessing in disguise" means a bad thing that may turn out to be g… — Soft words for hard things: religion and fate an… · tree and pragmatics description: "A blessing in disguise" means a bad thing that may turn out to be good. Who acts: blessing, bad thing. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/13/) [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: religion a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/) / 13 # Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes, sentence 13 "A blessing in disguise" means a bad thing that may turn out to be good. **Who acts:** blessing, bad thing · **What happens:** mean, turn out, be · **To what, where:** bad thing This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» 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 (blessing, bad thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:032-religion-fate-failure.lesson:13 # text = "A blessing in disguise" means a bad thing that may turn out to be good. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 032-religion-fate-failure.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 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 blessing blessing NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 disguise disguise NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 17 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a blessing in disguise | a bad thing | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 2 | **turn out** | may | a bad thing | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | a bad thing *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | 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:032-religion-fate-failure.lesson:13`. **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. **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: religion a…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/12/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: religion a…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/)