--- title: "The lights are on but nobody's home" means a person is stupid or no… — Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes… · tree and pragmatics description: "The lights are on but nobody's home" means a person is stupid or not paying attention. Who acts: lights, nobody, person. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lights, nobody, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:035-mistakes-and-stupidity.lesson:16 # text = "The lights are on but nobody's home" means a person is stupid or not paying attention. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 035-mistakes-and-stupidity.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 on on ADV RB _ 11 nsubj _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 7 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 9 nsubj _ _ 8 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 19 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the lights | | | | | on *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | nobody | home | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | a person | | | | | stupid *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **pay** | gerund | a person *not said here* | attention | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:035-mistakes-and-stupidity.lesson:16`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: failure an…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/15/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: failure an…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/)