--- title: Saying "no" or "you got it wrong" can hurt, so people dress failure… — Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes · tree and pragmatics description: Saying "no" or "you got it wrong" can hurt, so people dress failure up in softer clothes: a letter that says "we've decided to go in a different direction" really means "you did not get the job". Who acts: you, Saying, people, letter. 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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 (you, Saying, people, letter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:034-failure-and-mistakes.lesson:0 # text = Saying "no" or "you got it wrong" can hurt, so people dress failure up in softer clothes: a letter that says "we've decided to go in a different direction" really means "you did not get the job". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 034-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 ×3 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 csubj _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 3 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 1 discourse _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:discourse 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 dress dress VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 failure failure NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 22 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 17 obl _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 29 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 decided decide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 ccomp _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 39 really really ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 43 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 45 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 ccomp _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | past | you | it | | | | wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 3 | **hurt** | can | Saying | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **dress up** | present | people | failure | | softer clothes | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent failure=Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a letter | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **decide** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **go** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | | | a different direction | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location | | 8 | **mean** | present | a letter | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you | the job | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus | 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:034-failure-and-mistakes.lesson:0`. **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 ×3. **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…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/33-failure-and-mistakes/23/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: failure an…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/34-failure-and-mistakes/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/34-failure-and-mistakes/)