--- title: The listener has to finish the picture: if a part is missing, the pe… — Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madnes… · tree and pragmatics description: The listener has to finish the picture: if a part is missing, the person's mind is missing a part too. Who acts: listener, part, mind, person. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/) / 1 # Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing, sentence 1 The listener has to finish the picture: if a part is missing, the person's mind is missing a part too. **Who acts:** listener, part, mind, person · **What happens:** have, finish, be, miss, mind · **To what, where:** picture, part This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing» 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 (listener, part, mind, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:037-bats-and-gosh.lesson:1 # text = The listener has to finish the picture: if a part is missing, the person's mind is missing a part too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 037-bats-and-gosh.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 listener listener NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 9 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 missing missing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 missing miss VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 too too ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the listener | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **finish** | to-infinitive | the listener *not said here* | the picture | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality picture=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a part | | | | | missing *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **miss** | present · progressive | the person's mind | a part | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus | | 5 | **mind** | | the person | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:037-bats-and-gosh.lesson:1`. **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…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/24/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/)