--- title: Many old words for madness are jokes, and real mental illness is no… — Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness · tree and pragmatics description: Many old words for madness are jokes, and real mental illness is no joke, so a kind person does not use them about someone who is truly unwell. Who acts: Many old words, real mental illness, kind person. 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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 (Many old words, real mental illness, kind person), 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:3 # text = Many old words for madness are jokes, and real mental illness is no joke, so a kind person does not use them about someone who is truly unwell. # 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): no change 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 madness madness NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 mental mental ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 15 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 about about ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 obl _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 truly truly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 unwell unwell ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Many old words for madness | jokes and no joke | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | real mental illness | no joke | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **use** | present · do-support | a kind person | words *= word* | | | | about someone | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | truly, unwell *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:3`. **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): no change. **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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/2/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/)