Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing, sentence 13
"Two bricks shy of a load" means stupid or a bit mad; it is American and humorous.
Who acts: bricks shy, shy · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: stupid
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing» 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 (bricks shy, shy), 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 shy | punct |
| 2 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 bricks | nummod |
| 3 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shy | compound |
| 4 | shy | shy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 load | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 load | det |
| 7 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shy | obl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shy | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 means | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 mad | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bit | det |
| 13 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mad | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stupid | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 American | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 American | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 American | cop |
| 18 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 means | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 humorous | cc |
| 20 | humorous | humorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 American | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 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 | bricks shy | stupid | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stupid=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | shy | american property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | shy not said here | 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:037-bats-and-gosh.lesson:13.
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 ×2. 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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