--- title: "Needs some TLC" means a place is in bad condition and needs repairs… — Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "Needs some TLC" means a place is in bad condition and needs repairs; TLC stands for "tender loving care". Who acts: Needs TLC, place, TLC. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/6/) [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/) / [Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/) / 6 # Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 6 "Needs some TLC" means a place is in bad condition and needs repairs; TLC stands for "tender loving care". **Who acts:** Needs TLC, place, TLC · **What happens:** mean, be, need, stand · **To what, where:** bad condition, repairs · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» 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 (Needs TLC, place, TLC), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:6 # text = "Needs some TLC" means a place is in bad condition and needs repairs; TLC stands for "tender loving care". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 2 Needs need NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 compound _ _ 3 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 4 TLC tlc NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 condition condition NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 repairs repair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 TLC tlc NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 19 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 tender tender NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 loving loving ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | some Needs TLC | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | a place | | | bad condition | | | tree rules | | 3 | **need** | present | some Needs TLC *not said here* | repairs | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot repair=Theme | | 4 | **stand** | present | TLC | | | | | for tender loving care | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for care=Attribute | 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:042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:6`. **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, 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. 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