Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness, sentence 3
Australians are famous for these: "a sausage short of a barbie" or "a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock".
Who acts: Australians, few kangaroos · What happens: be, lose · To what, where: top paddock
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 (Australians, 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 | Australians | australian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 famous | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 famous | cop |
| 3 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 these | case |
| 5 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 famous | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 short | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 short | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sausage | det |
| 9 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 short | nsubj |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 famous | advcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 barbie | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 barbie | det |
| 13 | barbie | barbie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 short | obl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 short | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 loose | cc |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 kangaroos | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 kangaroos | det |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kangaroos | amod |
| 19 | kangaroos | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 loose | nsubj |
| 20 | loose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 short | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 paddock | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 paddock | det |
| 23 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 paddock | amod |
| 24 | paddock | paddock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 loose | obl |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 short | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 famous | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Australians | for these; famous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | 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 |
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:3.
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): 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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