Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 10
"Fixed" (US) and "seen to" (UK) mean a pet had an operation so it cannot have babies; "rehomed" means given to new owners.
Who acts: pet · What happens: fix, see, mean, have, not have, rehom · To what, where: operation, babies, new owners · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pet), 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 Fixed | punct |
| 2 | Fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fixed | punct |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 US | punct |
| 5 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fixed | dep |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 US | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seen | cc |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Fixed | conj |
| 10 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 9 seen | mark |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 UK | punct |
| 13 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | dep |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 UK | punct |
| 15 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pet | det |
| 17 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mean | ccomp |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 operation | det |
| 20 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 have | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 have | advmod |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 had | advcl |
| 26 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 have | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 rehomed | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 rehomed | punct |
| 29 | rehomed | rehom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 means | amod |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 rehomed | punct |
| 31 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mean | parataxis |
| 32 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 means | ccomp |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 owners | case |
| 34 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 owners | amod |
| 35 | owners | owner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 given | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix in a quote | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | see in a quote | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | have | past | a pet | a operation | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not have | can | pet | babies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | ||||
| 6 | rehom in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 8 | give | participle | new owners | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to owner=Recipient |
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:10.
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 ×1, 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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