Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 1

Some of these words are kind: a teacher who says a boy is "more practical than academic" means school work is hard for him, but he is good with his hands.

Who acts: words, teacher, boy, school work · What happens: be, say, mean · 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 (words, teacher, boy, school work), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 words	det
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 words	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kind	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 teacher	det
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	parataxis
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 teacher	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 practical	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 practical	cop
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 practical	punct
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 practical	advmod
17	practical	practical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 says	ccomp
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 academic	case
19	academic	academic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 practical	obl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 practical	punct
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 says	conj
22	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 work	compound
23	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hard	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hard	cop
25	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 means	ccomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hard	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 good	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 good	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 good	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 good	cop
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kind	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 hands	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hands	nmod:poss
35	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 good	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	some words	kind property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	a teacher		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	a boy	than academic; practical property	tree rules
4	mean	present	a teacher not said here		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	school work	for boy; hard property	tree rules
6	is	present	boy	with boy's hands; good property	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:036-dim-and-round-the-bend.lesson:1.

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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