--- title: "An ID-ten-T error" means a mistake the user made himself because he… — Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness · tree and pragmatics description: "An ID-ten-T error" means a mistake the user made himself because he was being an idiot: written down, ID10T spells "idiot"; it is computer jokers' talk. Who acts: ID, user, error, ID10T. 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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 (ID, user, error, ID10T), 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:8 # text = "An ID-ten-T error" means a mistake the user made himself because he was being an idiot: written down, ID10T spells "idiot"; it is computer jokers' talk. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 2 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 3 ID id NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 5 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 appos _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 7 T t NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 error error NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:appos 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 user user NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 cop _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 idiot idiot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 advcl _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 24 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 25 down down ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 ID10T ID10T PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 spells spell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 idiot idiot NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 35 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 jokers joker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 ' 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | **mean** | present | ID | a mistake | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic | | 2 | **make** | past | the user | user | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | | 3 | **is a** | past · progressive | error | a idiot | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **write down** | participle | | a idiot *not said here* | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **spell** | present | ID10T | idiot | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent idiot=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | ID | computer jokers's talk | | | | | 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:8`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/7/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/)