--- title: Australians are famous for these: "a sausage short of a barbie" or "… — Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes… · tree and pragmatics description: Australians are famous for these: "a sausage short of a barbie" or "a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock". Who acts: Australians, few kangaroos. 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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 (Australians, 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:3 # text = Australians are famous for these: "a sausage short of a barbie" or "a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Australians australian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sausage sausage NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 barbie barbie NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 kangaroos kangaroo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 loose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 paddock paddock NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Australians | | | | | for these; famous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **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 | 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:3`. **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): 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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/2/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: failure an…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/)