Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing, sentence 9
"A bit touched" means slightly mad; it is old-fashioned and gentle, often heard in Ireland.
Who acts: bit · What happens: touch, mean, be, hear · To what, where: bit, mad, Ireland · 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 (bit), 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 | _ | 3 bit | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bit | det |
| 3 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 4 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bit | acl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 touched | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 8 mad | advmod |
| 8 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 fashioned | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fashioned | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fashioned | cop |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fashioned | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 old | punct |
| 14 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gentle | cc |
| 16 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fashioned | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 heard | advmod |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 fashioned | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Ireland | case |
| 21 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | obl |
| 22 | . | . | 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 | touch in a quote | participle | a bit not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | a bit | mad | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mad=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | bit | fashioned property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | bit not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | hear | participle | Ireland | often property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×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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