Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 11
"A brain fart" (slang) means a silly mistake or a moment of forgetting.
Who acts: brain fart · What happens: mean · To what, where: silly mistake
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 (brain fart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fart | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fart | det |
| 3 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fart | compound |
| 4 | fart | fart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fart | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 slang | punct |
| 7 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fart | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 slang | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mistake | det |
| 11 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mistake | amod |
| 12 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 moment | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mistake | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 forgetting | case |
| 17 | forgetting | forgetting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 moment | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a brain fart | a silly mistake or a moment of forgetting | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic |
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, 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:033-failure-and-mistakes.lesson:11.
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. 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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