Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 24
"Lost his marbles" means gone mad or very confused.
What happens: lose, mean · To what, where: marbles, gone mad · 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: 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 Lost | punct |
| 2 | Lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 means | csubj |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 marbles | nmod:poss |
| 4 | marbles | marble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Lost | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lost | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mad | amod |
| 8 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 confused | cc |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 confused | advmod |
| 11 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mad | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | lose in a quote | participle | person's marbles | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marble=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | gone mad | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mad=Topic |
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:24.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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