Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 2
Others are jokes that paint a picture: "a screw loose" makes a person sound like a machine with one part wobbling, and "thick as two short planks" compares a slow thinker to pieces of wood.
Who acts: Others, jokes, thick · What happens: be, paint, make, sound, compare · To what, where: jokes, picture, slow thinker
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 (Others, jokes, thick), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 jokes | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 jokes | cop |
| 3 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 paint | nsubj |
| 5 | paint | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 jokes | acl:relcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 picture | det |
| 7 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paint | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 loose | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 loose | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 screw | det |
| 11 | screw | screw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loose | compound |
| 12 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 jokes | parataxis |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 loose | punct |
| 14 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 jokes | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 person | det |
| 16 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sound | compound |
| 17 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 makes | xcomp |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 machine | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 machine | det |
| 20 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sound | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 wobbling | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 part | nummod |
| 23 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wobbling | compound |
| 24 | wobbling | wobbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 machine | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 compares | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 thick | cc |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 thick | punct |
| 28 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 compares | nsubj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 planks | case |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 planks | nummod |
| 31 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 planks | amod |
| 32 | planks | plank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 thick | obl |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 thick | punct |
| 34 | compares | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 makes | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 thinker | det |
| 36 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 thinker | amod |
| 37 | thinker | thinker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 compares | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 pieces | case |
| 39 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 compares | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 wood | case |
| 41 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 pieces | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jokes | 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 | is a | present | Others | jokes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | paint | present | jokes | a picture | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Destination | ||||
| 3 | make | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | sound | infinitive | like a machine with part wobbling | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | compare | present | thick | a slow thinker | to pieces of wood | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thinker=Patient |
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:2.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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