Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 18

"A bit dim", "not the sharpest tool in the shed" and "no Einstein" mean not clever; "off one's rocker" and "round the twist" mean mad.

Who acts: bit · What happens: mean, round · To what, where: twist · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» 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	_	4 dim	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bit	det
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mean	nsubj
4	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bit	amod
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dim	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dim	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 tool	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 tool	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tool	det
10	sharpest	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 tool	amod
11	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 shed	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shed	det
14	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tool	nmod
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 tool	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 mean	cc
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Einstein	punct
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 Einstein	det
19	Einstein	Einstein	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 tool	conj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Einstein	punct
21	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 clever	advmod
23	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mean	ccomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 clever	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 rocker	punct
26	off	off	ADP	_	29 rocker	case
27	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 rocker	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 one	case
29	rocker	rocker	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 clever	obl
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 rocker	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 round	cc
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 round	punct
33	round	round	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 rocker	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 twist	det
35	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 round	obj
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 twist	punct
37	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	35 twist	parataxis
38	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 mean	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 tool	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a bit and the sharpest tool in the shed and no Einstein			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	round in a quote	past	a bit and the sharpest tool in the shed and no Einstein not said here	the twist		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent twist=Patient
3	mean	infinitive			mad property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:18.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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