Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 9
"Not the most academic" means not clever at school work; it is a polite way to put it.
Who acts: academic, work · What happens: mean, be, put · To what, where: clever, polite way, work
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 (academic, work), 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 | _ | 5 academic | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 academic | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 academic | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 academic | advmod |
| 5 | academic | academic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 academic | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 clever | advmod |
| 9 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 work | case |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 work | compound |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clever | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 way | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 way | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 way | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 17 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 way | amod |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 put | mark |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 way | acl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | 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 | the academic | clever | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clever=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | work | a polite way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | the academic not said here | work | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
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:9.
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 ×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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