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title: "Intellectually challenged" is a jokey way of saying stupid, copying… — Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness · tree and pragmatics
description: "Intellectually challenged" is a jokey way of saying stupid, copying the style of official polite words. Who acts: jokey way. 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 pragmatics of 
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# Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 7

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"Intellectually challenged" is a jokey way of saying stupid, copying the style of official polite words.

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**Who acts:** jokey way · **What happens:** challenge, be, say, copy · **To what, where:** jokey way, stupid, style · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (jokey 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:7
# text = "Intellectually challenged" is a jokey way of saying stupid, copying the style of official polite words.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Intellectually	intellectually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	challenged	challenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	jokey	jokey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	copying	copy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **challenge** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | intellectually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a jokey way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a jokey way *not said here* | stupid |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stupid=Topic |
| 4 | **copy** | gerund |  | the style of official polite words |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent style=Theme |

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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:7`.

**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, R7-rel-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/).

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