--- title: "Round the bend" means mad or very annoyed; "you're driving me round… — Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness · tree and pragmatics description: "Round the bend" means mad or very annoyed; "you're driving me round the bend" means you are making me crazy with annoyance. Who acts: you, driving. 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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 (you, driving), 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:14 # text = "Round the bend" means mad or very annoyed; "you're driving me round the bend" means you are making me crazy with annoyance. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 Round round ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bend bend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 csubj _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 round round ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bend bend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 ccomp _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 crazy crazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 annoyance annoyance NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | round the bend; mad *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **drive** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | a jokey way *= way* | | the bend | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme round bend=Trajectory | | 3 | **mean** | present | driving | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **make** | present · progressive | you | me | | | | crazy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | 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:14`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/13/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/)