--- title: "Lessons have been learned" (official) means we failed and we were b… — Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes · tree and pragmatics description: "Lessons have been learned" (official) means we failed and we were blamed. Who acts: we. 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/34-failure-and-mistakes/15/) [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/34-failure-and-mistakes/) / 15 # Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 15 "Lessons have been learned" (official) means we failed and we were blamed. **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** learn, mean, fail, blame · **To what, where:** Lessons, we · **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: who acts (we), 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:15 # text = "Lessons have been learned" (official) means we failed and we were blamed. # 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 `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 Lessons lesson NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:csubj 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 8 official official NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 blamed blame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | Lessons | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **fail** | past | we | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **blame** | past · passive | | we | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:15`. **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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: failure an…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/34-failure-and-mistakes/14/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: failure an…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/34-failure-and-mistakes/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/34-failure-and-mistakes/)