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title: "No Einstein" is a joke meaning not clever; Albert Einstein was a ve… — Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes… · tree and pragmatics
description: "No Einstein" is a joke meaning not clever; Albert Einstein was a very famous and very clever scientist. Who acts: Einstein joke, Albert. 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 d
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# Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness, sentence 24

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"No Einstein" is a joke meaning not clever; Albert Einstein was a very famous and very clever scientist.

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**Who acts:** Einstein joke, Albert · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** Einstein joke, famous scientist

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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 (Einstein joke, Albert), 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:24
# text = "No Einstein" is a joke meaning not clever; Albert Einstein was a very famous and very clever scientist.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	Einstein	Einstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	Albert	Albert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
13	Einstein	Einstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
21	scientist	scientist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a Einstein joke and a famous scientist |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund | a Einstein joke and a famous scientist *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Albert | a famous scientist |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:24`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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