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title: "Not quite there yet" means not good enough yet. — Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes · tree and pragmatics
description: "Not quite there yet" means not good enough yet. 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.
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# Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 10

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"Not quite there yet" means not good enough yet.

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**What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** good

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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: 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:10
# text = "Not quite there yet" means not good enough yet.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj
5	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
10	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  | good |  |  | yet |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Topic |

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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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**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:10`.

**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 ×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/).

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