Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness, sentence 16
"The lights are on but nobody's home" means a person is stupid or not paying attention.
Who acts: lights, nobody, person · What happens: be, mean, not pay · To what, where: home, attention · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness» 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 (lights, nobody, person), 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 | _ | 5 on | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lights | det |
| 3 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 on | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 on | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 means | nsubj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 home | cc |
| 7 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 home | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 home | cop |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 on | conj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 on | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stupid | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 stupid | cop |
| 15 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | ccomp |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 paying | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 paying | advmod |
| 18 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 stupid | conj |
| 19 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 paying | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the lights | on property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | nobody | home | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | a person | stupid property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not pay | gerund | a person not said here | attention | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
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:035-mistakes-and-stupidity.lesson:16.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-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.
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