Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness, sentence 2

Calling someone stupid is rude, so English has dozens of jokey ways to say it, many of them pictures of something missing: "a few sandwiches short of a picnic" means the person's head is missing a few "pieces".

Who acts: Calling, English, many, head · What happens: call, be, have, say, picture, mean · To what, where: someone, dozens, error, few pieces · 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 (Calling, English, many, head), 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	Calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 rude	csubj
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Calling	obj
3	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Calling	xcomp
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rude	cop
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 has	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 has	advmod
8	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rude	parataxis
10	dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 has	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 ways	case
12	jokey	jokey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ways	amod
13	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dozens	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 say	mark
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ways	acl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 say	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pictures	punct
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pictures	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 many	nmod
21	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ways	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 something	case
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 pictures	nmod
24	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 something	amod
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 short	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 short	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 sandwiches	det
28	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sandwiches	amod
29	sandwiches	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 short	nsubj
30	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 means	parataxis
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 picnic	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 picnic	det
33	picnic	picnic	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 short	obl
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 short	punct
35	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 has	parataxis
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 person	det
37	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 head	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 person	case
39	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 missing	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 missing	aux
41	missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 means	ccomp
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 pieces	det
43	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 pieces	amod
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 pieces	punct
45	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 missing	obj
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 pieces	punct
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rude	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	gerund			someone	stupid property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient
2	is	present	Calling			rude property	tree rules
3	have	present	English	dozens of jokey ways and pictures			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dozen=Patient
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	English not said here	error			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	picture		many of ways			of something	tree rules
6	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	miss	present · progressive	the person's head	a few pieces			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus

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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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