Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 16

"Round the twist" means mad, just like "round the bend"; it is British.

Who acts: bend · What happens: mean, round, be · To what, where: bend · 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 (bend), 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	_	4 twist	punct
2	Round	round	ADP	_	4 twist	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 twist	det
4	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mad	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 twist	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 round	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 round	advmod
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 round	mark
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 round	punct
12	round	round	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 means	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bend	det
14	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 round	obj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 bend	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 British	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 British	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 British	cop
19	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present			mad property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	round in a quote	past		the bend		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bend=Patient
3	is	present	bend		british 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:16.

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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