Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 22
"Expired" means died; it is medical or official jargon (a ticket or a carton of milk can also "expire").
Who acts: Expired, battle, ticket · What happens: mean, die, be, expire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» 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 (Expired, battle, ticket), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Expired | punct |
| 2 | Expired | expired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Expired | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | ccomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 medical | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 medical | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 medical | cop |
| 9 | medical | medical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 official | cc |
| 11 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 medical | conj |
| 12 | jargon | jargon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 medical | conj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 expire | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ticket | det |
| 15 | ticket | ticket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 expire | nsubj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 carton | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 carton | det |
| 18 | carton | carton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ticket | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 milk | case |
| 20 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carton | nmod |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 expire | aux |
| 22 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 expire | advmod |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 expire | punct |
| 24 | expire | expire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 means | parataxis |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 expire | punct |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 expire | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Expired | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | die | past | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | battle | medical property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | battle not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | expire in a quote | can | a ticket or a carton of milk | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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, 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:002-death-official-and-slang.lesson:22.
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 ×2. 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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