--- title: "Didn't go to plan" means failed or went wrong. — Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes · tree and pragmatics description: "Didn't go to plan" means failed or went wrong. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/33-failure-and-mistakes/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: failure an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/33-failure-and-mistakes/) / 4 # Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 4 "Didn't go to plan" means failed or went wrong. **What happens:** not go, mean, fail, go · **To what, where:** plan · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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: 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:4 # text = "Didn't go to plan" means failed or went wrong. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 Did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 6 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | past · do-support | | | | plan | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to plan=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **fail** | past | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go** | past | | | | | | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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: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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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: failure an…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/33-failure-and-mistakes/3/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: failure an…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/33-failure-and-mistakes/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/33-failure-and-mistakes/)