--- title: Others are jokes that paint a picture: "a screw loose" makes a perso… — Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness · tree and pragmatics description: Others are jokes that paint a picture: "a screw loose" makes a person sound like a machine with one part wobbling, and "thick as two short planks" compares a slow thinker to pieces of wood. Who acts: Others, jokes, thick. 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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 (Others, jokes, thick), 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:2 # text = Others are jokes that paint a picture: "a screw loose" makes a person sound like a machine with one part wobbling, and "thick as two short planks" compares a slow thinker to pieces of wood. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 paint paint VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 screw screw NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj 12 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 16 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 21 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nummod 23 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 wobbling wobbling NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 nsubj _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 31 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 planks plank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 34 compares compare VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 thinker thinker NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Others | jokes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **paint** | present | jokes | a picture | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Destination | | 3 | **make** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sound** | infinitive | | | | | | like a machine with part wobbling | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **compare** | present | thick | a slow thinker | | | | to pieces of wood | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thinker=Patient | 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:2`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/)