Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 0

In an olympiad puzzle about soft words you are a detective: first turn every soft phrase into plain words, then use the plain meanings for the next step of the puzzle.

Who acts: you · What happens: be, turn, use, step · To what, where: detective, olympiad puzzle, soft phrase, plain words, plain meanings, puzzle

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» 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 (you), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 puzzle	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 puzzle	det
3	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 puzzle	compound
4	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 detective	obl
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 words	case
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 puzzle	nmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 detective	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 detective	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 detective	det
11	detective	detective	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 turn	punct
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 turn	advmod
14	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 detective	parataxis
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 phrase	det
16	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 phrase	amod
17	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turn	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 words	case
19	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 words	amod
20	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 turn	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 use	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 use	advmod
23	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 turn	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 meanings	det
25	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 meanings	amod
26	meanings	meaning	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 use	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 step	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 step	det
29	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 step	amod
30	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 use	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 puzzle	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 puzzle	det
33	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 step	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 detective	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=request

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	you	a detective	a olympiad puzzle about soft words			tree rules
2	turn	infinitive		every soft phrase	plain words		first property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent phrase=Theme into word=Trajectory
3	use	infinitive		the plain meanings		then	for the next step of the puzzle	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme for step=Eventuality
4	step			the puzzle				nom step «act transitive»: of=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:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:0.

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): R7-rel-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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