--- title: Businesses and politicians spin failures: a company whose plan flopp… — Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes · tree and pragmatics description: Businesses and politicians spin failures: a company whose plan flopped calls its new plan "a pivot", and a minister who was caught out says "lessons have been learned". Who acts: Businesses, plan, company, minister. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes» of the e --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 2 Businesses and politicians spin failures: a company whose plan flopped calls its new plan "a pivot", and a minister who was caught out says "lessons have been learned". **Who acts:** Businesses, plan, company, minister · **What happens:** spin, flop, call, catch out, say, learn · **To what, where:** failures, new plan, minister, lessons · **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 (Businesses, plan, company, minister), 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:2 # text = Businesses and politicians spin failures: a company whose plan flopped calls its new plan "a pivot", and a minister who was caught out says "lessons have been learned". # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Businesses business NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:root 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 politicians politician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 spin spin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 failures failure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 flopped flop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 pivot pivot NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 xcomp _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 28 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 30 lessons lesson NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 ccomp _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 . . 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 | **spin** | present | Businesses and politicians | failures | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent failure=Theme | | 2 | **flop** | past | plan | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | present | a company | plan's new plan | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent plan=Recipient | | 4 | **catch out** | past · passive | | a minister | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a minister | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **learn** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | lessons | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 7 | **plan** | | plan | | | | | | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:2`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/34-failure-and-mistakes/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: failure an…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/34-failure-and-mistakes/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/34-failure-and-mistakes/)