Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing, sentence 8
"Lost the plot" means gone mad or started behaving in a wild, senseless way; it is British slang.
Who acts: way · What happens: lose, mean, start, behave, be · To what, where: plot, gone mad, wild senseless way, British slang · 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 (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 | _ | 2 Lost | punct |
| 2 | Lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 means | csubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 plot | det |
| 4 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lost | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lost | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mad | amod |
| 8 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 started | cc |
| 10 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | conj |
| 11 | behaving | behave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 started | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 14 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 way | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 way | punct |
| 16 | senseless | senseless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 behaving | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 slang | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 slang | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 slang | cop |
| 21 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 slang | amod |
| 22 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose in a quote | participle | the plot | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | gone mad | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mad=Topic | |||||
| 3 | start | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | behave | gerund | a wild senseless way | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | way | British slang | 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: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 ×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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