Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 21

"Eccentric" is a polite word for a person who is odd or strange in a harmless way.

Who acts: Eccentric, person · What happens: be · To what, where: polite word, harmless way

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 (Eccentric, person), 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	_	2 Eccentric	punct
2	Eccentric	eccentric	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Eccentric	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 word	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 person	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 odd	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 odd	cop
13	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 person	acl:relcl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 strange	cc
15	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 odd	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 way	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 way	det
18	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 odd	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 word	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Eccentric	a polite word		for a person	tree rules
2	is	present	a person		a harmless way	odd property	tree rules
3	be		a person not said here				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:21.

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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