Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing, sentence 7

"The elevator doesn't go all the way to the top" means a person is stupid or a bit mad; it is an American joke.

Who acts: elevator, person · What happens: not go, mean, be · To what, where: way, top, bit, American joke · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (elevator, person), 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	_	6 go	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 elevator	det
3	elevator	elevator	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 means	ccomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 way	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 top	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 top	det
12	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 top	punct
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 person	det
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stupid	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 stupid	cop
18	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 means	ccomp
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 mad	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bit	det
21	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mad	obl:unmarked
22	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stupid	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 joke	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 joke	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 joke	cop
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 joke	det
27	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 joke	amod
28	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 means	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go in a quote	present · do-support	the elevator	all way	the top		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location
2	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	present	a person			stupid property	tree rules
4	be		a person not said here	a bit			tree rules
5	is a	present	person	a American 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:037-bats-and-gosh.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): R5-strong ×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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