Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness, sentence 24
"No Einstein" is a joke meaning not clever; Albert Einstein was a very famous and very clever scientist.
Who acts: Einstein joke, Albert · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: Einstein joke, famous scientist
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 (Einstein joke, Albert), 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 | _ | 3 Einstein | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 Einstein | det |
| 3 | Einstein | Einstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 joke | compound |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Einstein | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 joke | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 joke | det |
| 7 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 joke | acl |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 clever | advmod |
| 10 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 meaning | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 scientist | punct |
| 12 | Albert | Albert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 scientist | nsubj |
| 13 | Einstein | Einstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Albert | flat |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 scientist | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 scientist | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 famous | advmod |
| 17 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 scientist | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 clever | cc |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 clever | advmod |
| 20 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 famous | conj |
| 21 | scientist | scientist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 joke | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 joke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a Einstein joke and a famous scientist | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | a Einstein joke and a famous scientist not said here | clever property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Albert | a famous scientist | 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:24.
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): no change. 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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