--- title: "The elevator doesn't go all the way to the top" means a person is s… — Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madnes… · tree and pragmatics description: "The elevator doesn't go all the way to the top" means a person is stupid or a bit mad; it is an American joke. Who acts: elevator, 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 (elevator, 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:7 # text = "The elevator doesn't go all the way to the top" means a person is stupid or a bit mad; it is an American joke. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 elevator elevator NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:csubj 7 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the elevator | all way | | the top | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | a person | | | | | stupid *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | a person *not said here* | a bit | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | person | a American joke | | | | | 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:037-bats-and-gosh.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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/6/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/)