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title: "A correction", on the stock market (where shares, small parts of co… — Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes · tree and pragmatics
description: "A correction", on the stock market (where shares, small parts of companies, are bought and sold), means a sharp fall in prices. Who acts: correction. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 18

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"A correction", on the stock market (where shares, small parts of companies, are bought and sold), means a sharp fall in prices.

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**Who acts:** correction · **What happens:** buy, sell, mean · **To what, where:** shares, sharp fall

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:033-failure-and-mistakes.lesson:18
# text = "A correction", on the stock market (where shares, small parts of companies, are bought and sold), means a sharp fall in prices.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 033-failure-and-mistakes.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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	correction	correction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
12	shares	share	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
25	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	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 | **buy** | present · passive |  | shares  small parts of companies |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **sell** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | a correction on the stock market | a sharp fall |  |  |  | in prices | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot fall=Theme in price=Attribute |

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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): no change. **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.

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