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title: "More practical than academic" means not good at school or books, bu… — Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness · tree and pragmatics
description: "More practical than academic" means not good at school or books, but often good at doing things with the hands. Who acts: practical. 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 the pragma
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# Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 10

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"More practical than academic" means not good at school or books, but often good at doing things with the hands.

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**Who acts:** practical · **What happens:** mean, do · **To what, where:** things

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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 (practical), 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:10
# text = "More practical than academic" means not good at school or books, but often good at doing things with the hands.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	More	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	practical	practical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	academic	academic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
18	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
19	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | practical |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | practical *not said here* | things |  |  |  | with the hands | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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:036-dim-and-round-the-bend.lesson:10`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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