--- title: Calling someone stupid or mad to their face is rude and hurts, so pe… — Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness · tree and pragmatics description: Calling someone stupid or mad to their face is rude and hurts, so people wrap the idea in softer or funnier words. Who acts: Calling, people. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/0/) [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: stupidity…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/) / 0 # Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 0 Calling someone stupid or mad to their face is rude and hurts, so people wrap the idea in softer or funnier words. **Who acts:** Calling, people · **What happens:** call, be, hurt, wrap · **To what, where:** someone, face, idea, softer words · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Calling, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:036-dim-and-round-the-bend.lesson:0 # text = Calling someone stupid or mad to their face is rude and hurts, so people wrap the idea in softer or funnier words. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 036-dim-and-round-the-bend.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 wrap wrap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 funnier funny ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 conj _ _ 23 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | gerund | | someone | their face | | | stupid *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Topic to face=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | present | Calling | | | | | rude *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **hurt** | present | Calling *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **wrap** | present | people | the idea | | softer words | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent idea=Theme in word=Destination | 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:036-dim-and-round-the-bend.lesson:0`. **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 ×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…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/24/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/)