--- title: Friends use jokey slang to laugh at their own mistakes: "it all went… — Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes · tree and pragmatics description: Friends use jokey slang to laugh at their own mistakes: "it all went pear-shaped" or "I had a brain fart". Who acts: Friends, mistake, Nobody. 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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 (Friends, mistake, Nobody), 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:3 # text = Friends use jokey slang to laugh at their own mistakes: "it all went pear-shaped" or "I had a brain fart". # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 jokey jokey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl 7 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 all all ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 pear pear NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 shaped shaped ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 fart fart NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Friends | jokey slang | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slang=Patient | | 2 | **laugh** | to-infinitive | Friends *not said here* | | | Friends's own mistakes | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | past | mistake | | | | | all, shaped *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Nobody | a brain fart | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fart=Patient | | 5 | **mistake** | | Friends *= friend* | | | | | | nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:033-failure-and-mistakes.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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: failure an…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/33-failure-and-mistakes/2/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: failure an…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/33-failure-and-mistakes/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/33-failure-and-mistakes/)