--- title: "A few kangaroos loose in the top paddock" (Australia) means stupid… — Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes… · tree and pragmatics description: "A few kangaroos loose in the top paddock" (Australia) means stupid or a bit mad. Who acts: few kangaroos. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: failure an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/) / 17 # Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness, sentence 17 "A few kangaroos loose in the top paddock" (Australia) means stupid or a bit mad. **Who acts:** few kangaroos · **What happens:** lose, mean · **To what, where:** top paddock · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness» 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 (few kangaroos), 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:17 # text = "A few kangaroos loose in the top paddock" (Australia) means stupid or a bit mad. # 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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 kangaroos kangaroo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 loose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 paddock paddock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 14 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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* | present | a few kangaroos | | | the top paddock | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in paddock=Eventuality | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | stupid *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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:17`. **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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: failure an…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/16/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: failure an…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/)