Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 13
"Let go", "shown the door", "laid off" and "relieved of his duties" all mean lost a job; "relieved of his duties" is official, "shown the door" is everyday talk.
What happens: let, go, show, lay off, mean, lose · To what, where: door, job, everyday talk · 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 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 mean | parataxis |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 shown | punct |
| 7 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Let | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shown | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 shown | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laid | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 laid | punct |
| 13 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shown | parataxis |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 laid | compound:prt |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 laid | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lost | cc |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 relieved | punct |
| 18 | relieved | relieved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 laid | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 duties | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 duties | nmod:poss |
| 21 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 relieved | obl |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 relieved | punct |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 mean | det |
| 24 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 mean | ccomp |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 job | det |
| 27 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lost | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 laid | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 relieved | punct |
| 30 | relieved | relieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 official | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 duties | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 duties | nmod:poss |
| 33 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 relieved | obl |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 relieved | punct |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 official | cop |
| 36 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mean | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 official | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 shown | punct |
| 39 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 talk | nsubj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 door | det |
| 41 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 shown | obj |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 shown | punct |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 talk | cop |
| 44 | everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 talk | amod |
| 45 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mean | parataxis |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | show in a quote | participle | the door | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | lay off in a quote | past | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | lose | past | a job | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | relieve in a quote | past | of UK's duties | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer of duty=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is | present | official property | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | show in a quote | participle | the door | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Recipient | |||||
| 10 | is a | present | everyday talk | tree rules |
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:13.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×6, 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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