--- title: "Marches to the beat of a different drum" means is very unusual and… — Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness · tree and pragmatics description: "Marches to the beat of a different drum" means is very unusual and does things his own way; it is American and often kind. Who acts: way. 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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 (way), 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:23 # text = "Marches to the beat of a different drum" means is very unusual and does things his own way; it is American and often kind. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Marches march VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 nsubj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 beat beat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 unusual unusual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 often often ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **march** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | to the beat of a different drum *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to beat=Result | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | unusual *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | present | | things person's own way | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | present | way | | | | | american *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | way *not said here* | | | | | often *property* | tree rules | 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:23`. **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, 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: stupidity…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/22/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/)