--- title: Some phrases are kind, like "not quite there yet" for a drawing that… — Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes · tree and pragmatics description: Some phrases are kind, like "not quite there yet" for a drawing that still needs work; others are funny, like "I dropped a clanger" for an embarrassing mistake. Who acts: phrases, drawing, others, 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 (phrases, drawing, others, 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:1 # text = Some phrases are kind, like "not quite there yet" for a drawing that still needs work; others are funny, like "I dropped a clanger" for an embarrassing mistake. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 phrases phrase NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 6 like like SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 9 quite quite ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 conj _ _ 11 yet yet ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 drawing drawing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 still still ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 like like SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 clanger clanger NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 32 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 embarrassing embarrassing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some phrases | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | present | a drawing | work | | | still | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot work=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | others | | | | | funny *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **drop** *in a quote* | past | a letter *= letter* | a clanger | | | | for a embarrassing mistake | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clanger=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:034-failure-and-mistakes.lesson:1`. **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 ×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…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/34-failure-and-mistakes/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: failure an…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/34-failure-and-mistakes/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/34-failure-and-mistakes/)