Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 12
"Spend a penny", "powder my nose" and "freshen up" can all mean go to the toilet.
What happens: spend, powder, freshen up, mean, go · To what, where: penny, nose, toilet · 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: 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 Spend | punct |
| 2 | Spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 penny | det |
| 4 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Spend | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spend | punct |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spend | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 powder | punct |
| 8 | powder | powder | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Spend | conj |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nose | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 powder | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 powder | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 freshen | cc |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 freshen | punct |
| 14 | freshen | freshen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Spend | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 freshen | compound:prt |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 freshen | punct |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 mean | aux |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 mean | advmod |
| 19 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 mean | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 toilet | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 toilet | det |
| 23 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend in a quote | infinitive | a penny | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Asset | |||||
| 2 | powder in a quote | infinitive | my nose | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient | |||||
| 3 | freshen up in a quote | infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | mean | can | all property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | infinitive | the toilet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial_Location |
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:12.
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 ×3. 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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