Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 6
"Thick as two short planks" means very stupid; it is a British joke.
Who acts: speaker · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: stupid, British joke
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 | _ | 2 Thick | punct |
| 2 | Thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 planks | case |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 planks | nummod |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 planks | amod |
| 6 | planks | plank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Thick | obl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thick | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Thick | parataxis |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 stupid | advmod |
| 10 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 joke | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 joke | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 joke | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 joke | det |
| 15 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 joke | amod |
| 16 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Thick | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thick | 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 | mean | present | stupid | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stupid=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | speaker | a British joke | 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:6.
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 ×1, 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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