Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 10
"More practical than academic" means not good at school or books, but often good at doing things with the hands.
Who acts: practical · What happens: mean, do · To what, where: things
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 (practical), 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 practical | punct |
| 2 | More | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 practical | advmod |
| 3 | practical | practical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | nsubj |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 academic | case |
| 5 | academic | academic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 practical | obl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 practical | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 good | advmod |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | xcomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 school | case |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 good | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 books | cc |
| 13 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 school | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 good | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 good | cc |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 good | advmod |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 good | conj |
| 18 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 19 doing | mark |
| 19 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 good | advcl |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 doing | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 hands | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hands | det |
| 23 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 doing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | practical | good property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | practical not said here | things | with the hands | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:036-dim-and-round-the-bend.lesson:10.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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