Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 4
To understand these phrases, ask: is the speaker being gentle, polite, or making fun?
Who acts: you, speaker · What happens: understand, ask, be, make · To what, where: phrases, fun · 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 (you, speaker), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 understand | mark |
| 2 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ask | advcl |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 phrases | det |
| 4 | phrases | phrase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 understand | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gentle | aux |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 speaker | det |
| 10 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gentle | nsubj |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 gentle | cop |
| 12 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ask | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 polite | punct |
| 14 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gentle | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 making | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 making | cc |
| 17 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 gentle | conj |
| 18 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 making | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | to-infinitive | you not said here | this phrases | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer phrase=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present · progressive | the speaker | gentle property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the speaker not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | make | gerund | the speaker not said here | fun | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product |
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:4.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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