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title: "A pivot" (US business jargon) means a change of plan after the firs… — Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes · tree and pragmatics
description: "A pivot" (US business jargon) means a change of plan after the first plan failed. Who acts: pivot, first plan, plan. 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 cla
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# Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 14

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"A pivot" (US business jargon) means a change of plan after the first plan failed.

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**Who acts:** pivot, first plan, plan · **What happens:** mean, fail, change · **To what, where:** change

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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: who acts (pivot, first plan, plan), 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:14
# text = "A pivot" (US business jargon) means a change of plan after the first plan failed.
# 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 ×3
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pivot	pivot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
6	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	jargon	jargon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
19	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | a pivot | a change of plan |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Topic |
| 2 | **fail** | past | the first plan |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **change** |  | plan |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:14`.

**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 ×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/).

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