Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 5
"A bit dim" means rather stupid; it is everyday British English and sounds softer than "stupid".
Who acts: speaker · What happens: mean, be, sound · To what, where: stupid, everyday British English
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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dim | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bit | det |
| 3 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dim | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dim | conj |
| 7 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 8 stupid | advmod |
| 8 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 English | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 English | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 English | cop |
| 12 | everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 English | amod |
| 13 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 English | amod |
| 14 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dim | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sounds | cc |
| 16 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 English | conj |
| 17 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 sounds | xcomp |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 stupid | case |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 stupid | punct |
| 20 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 softer | obl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 stupid | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dim | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | stupid | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stupid=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | speaker | everyday British English | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sound | present | speaker not said here | soft property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:5.
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): 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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