Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness, sentence 17
"A few kangaroos loose in the top paddock" (Australia) means stupid or a bit mad.
Who acts: few kangaroos · What happens: lose, mean · To what, where: top paddock · 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 (few kangaroos), 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 loose | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kangaroos | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kangaroos | amod |
| 4 | kangaroos | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 loose | nsubj |
| 5 | loose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 means | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 paddock | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 paddock | det |
| 8 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 paddock | amod |
| 9 | paddock | paddock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loose | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 loose | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Australia | punct |
| 12 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 means | parataxis |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Australia | punct |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 means | xcomp |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 mad | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bit | det |
| 18 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mad | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stupid | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose in a quote | present | a few kangaroos | the top paddock | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in paddock=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | stupid property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=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:035-mistakes-and-stupidity.lesson:17.
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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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