--- title: "A bit dim", "not the sharpest tool in the shed" and "no Einstein" m… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "A bit dim", "not the sharpest tool in the shed" and "no Einstein" mean not clever; "off one's rocker" and "round the twist" mean mad. Who acts: bit. 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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 (bit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:18 # text = "A bit dim", "not the sharpest tool in the shed" and "no Einstein" mean not clever; "off one's rocker" and "round the twist" mean mad. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.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, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 4 dim dim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 sharpest sharp ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 tool tool NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 shed shed NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 19 det _ _ 19 Einstein Einstein PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 ccomp _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 26 off off ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 rocker rocker NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 round round VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 twist twist NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 37 mean mean VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 35 parataxis _ _ 38 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a bit and the sharpest tool in the shed and no Einstein | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **round** *in a quote* | past | a bit and the sharpest tool in the shed and no Einstein *not said here* | the twist | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent twist=Patient | | 3 | **mean** | infinitive | | | | | | mad *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:18`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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