Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 8
"An ID-ten-T error" means a mistake the user made himself because he was being an idiot: written down, ID10T spells "idiot"; it is computer jokers' talk.
Who acts: ID, user, error, ID10T · What happens: mean, make, be, write down, spell · To what, where: mistake, user, idiot, talk
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 (ID, user, error, ID10T), 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 | _ | 10 means | punct |
| 2 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 error | det |
| 3 | ID | id | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ten | punct |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 ID | appos |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 error | punct |
| 7 | T | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 error | compound |
| 8 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 error | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mistake | det |
| 12 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 user | det |
| 14 | user | user | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 mistake | acl:relcl |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 made | obl |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 idiot | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 idiot | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 idiot | aux |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 idiot | cop |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 idiot | det |
| 22 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | advcl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 written | punct |
| 24 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 idiot | acl |
| 25 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 written | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 spells | punct |
| 27 | ID10T | ID10T | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 spells | nsubj |
| 28 | spells | spell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 idiot | parataxis |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 idiot | punct |
| 30 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 spells | obj |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 idiot | punct |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 talk | punct |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 talk | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 talk | cop |
| 35 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 jokers | compound |
| 36 | jokers | joker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 talk | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 36 jokers | case |
| 38 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | parataxis |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 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 | mean | present | ID | a mistake | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the user | user | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | ||||
| 3 | is a | past · progressive | error | a idiot | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | write down | participle | a idiot not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | spell | present | ID10T | idiot | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent idiot=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | ID | computer jokers's talk | 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:8.
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, 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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