Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 0
Calling someone stupid or mad to their face is rude and hurts, so people wrap the idea in softer or funnier words.
Who acts: Calling, people · What happens: call, be, hurt, wrap · To what, where: someone, face, idea, softer words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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, people), 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 | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 rude | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Calling | obj |
| 3 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Calling | xcomp |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 mad | cc |
| 5 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stupid | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 face | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 face | nmod:poss |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Calling | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rude | cop |
| 10 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hurts | cc |
| 12 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rude | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wrap | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 wrap | advmod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wrap | nsubj |
| 16 | wrap | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rude | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 idea | det |
| 18 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wrap | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 words | case |
| 20 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 words | amod |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 funnier | cc |
| 22 | funnier | funny | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 softer | conj |
| 23 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wrap | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rude | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | someone | their face | stupid property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Topic to face=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | present | Calling | rude property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hurt | present | Calling not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | wrap | present | people | the idea | softer words | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent idea=Theme in word=Destination |
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:036-dim-and-round-the-bend.lesson:0.
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 ×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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