--- title: "Lady Luck" means chance or fortune, spoken of as if she were a pers… — Soft words for hard things: religion and fate an… · tree and pragmatics description: "Lady Luck" means chance or fortune, spoken of as if she were a person. Who acts: Lady Luck, tree. 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 every --- [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/22/) [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/) / 22 # Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes, sentence 22 "Lady Luck" means chance or fortune, spoken of as if she were a person. **Who acts:** Lady Luck, tree · **What happens:** mean, speak, be · **To what, where:** chance, person · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Lady Luck, tree), 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:22 # text = "Lady Luck" means chance or fortune, spoken of as if she were a person. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Lady Lady PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Luck luck PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 10 obl _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 advcl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Lady Luck | chance or fortune | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Topic | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle | Lady Luck *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | past | tree | a person | | | | | 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: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): 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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: religion a…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/20/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: religion a…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/)