--- title: "It wasn't meant to be" means it failed and you could not have chang… — Soft words for hard things: religion and fate an… · tree and pragmatics description: "It wasn't meant to be" means it failed and you could not have changed it. Who acts: word, you. 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 cla --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes, sentence 4 "It wasn't meant to be" means it failed and you could not have changed it. **Who acts:** word, you · **What happens:** not mean, mean, fail, not change · **To what, where:** word · **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 (word, you), 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:4 # text = "It wasn't meant to be" means it failed and you could not have changed it. # 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 `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 csubj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux _ _ 17 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 . . 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 | **not** **mean** *in a quote* | past · passive | | word | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **fail** | past | word | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **change** | could · perfect | you | word | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:4`. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/3/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: religion a…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/)