Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 22
"A real character" is a polite way to call someone odd, unusual or difficult.
Who acts: real character · What happens: be, call · To what, where: polite way, someone · 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 (real character), 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 | _ | 9 way | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 character | det |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 character | amod |
| 4 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 way | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 character | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 8 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 call | mark |
| 11 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 way | acl |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 call | obj |
| 13 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 call | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 unusual | punct |
| 15 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 odd | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 difficult | cc |
| 17 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 odd | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | 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 | a real character | a polite way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | to-infinitive | someone | odd property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient |
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:22.
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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