Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 7
"Intellectually challenged" is a jokey way of saying stupid, copying the style of official polite words.
Who acts: jokey way · What happens: challenge, be, say, copy · To what, where: jokey way, stupid, style · 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 (jokey way), 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 | _ | 3 challenged | punct |
| 2 | Intellectually | intellectually | ADV | _ | 3 challenged | advmod |
| 3 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 way | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 challenged | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | jokey | jokey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 saying | mark |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 way | acl |
| 11 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 saying | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 copying | punct |
| 13 | copying | copy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 way | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 style | det |
| 15 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 copying | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 words | case |
| 17 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 words | amod |
| 18 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 words | amod |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 style | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | challenge in a quote | participle | intellectually property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a jokey way | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | a jokey way not said here | stupid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stupid=Topic | ||||
| 4 | copy | gerund | the style of official polite words | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent style=Theme |
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:7.
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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