--- title: "A stubby short of a six-pack" (Australia) means stupid or a bit mad… — Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes… · tree and pragmatics description: "A stubby short of a six-pack" (Australia) means stupid or a bit mad; a stubby is a small bottle of beer. Who acts: stubby. 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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 (stubby), 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:20 # text = "A stubby short of a six-pack" (Australia) means stupid or a bit mad; a stubby is a small bottle of beer. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 stubby stubby NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 4 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 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 _ _ 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 , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 stubby stubby NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 beer beer NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a stubby | | | | | stupid *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | a stubby | a small bottle | | | | of beer | 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](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:20`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/18/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: failure an…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/)