Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness, sentence 20
"A stubby short of a six-pack" (Australia) means stupid or a bit mad; a stubby is a small bottle of beer.
Who acts: stubby · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: small bottle
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 (stubby), 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 | _ | 14 means | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stubby | det |
| 3 | stubby | stubby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | nsubj |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stubby | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 pack | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pack | det |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pack | nummod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 six | punct |
| 9 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 short | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 short | 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 | _ | 26 bottle | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 stubby | det |
| 22 | stubby | stubby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bottle | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 bottle | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bottle | det |
| 25 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bottle | amod |
| 26 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 beer | case |
| 28 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bottle | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a stubby | stupid property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a stubby | a small bottle | of beer | tree rules |
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:20.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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