Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 16
"Gosh", "gee", "jeepers", "cripes" and "for Pete's sake" are mild stand-ins for holy names: God, Jesus and Christ.
Who acts: cripes · What happens: be · To what, where: mild stand ins
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 (cripes), 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 Gosh | punct |
| 2 | Gosh | gosh | INTJ | _ | 6 gee | discourse |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gosh | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gosh | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 gee | punct |
| 6 | gee | gee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cripes | conj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 gee | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 jeepers | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 jeepers | punct |
| 10 | jeepers | jeeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gee | appos |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 jeepers | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cripes | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 cripes | punct |
| 14 | cripes | cripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 ins | nsubj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 cripes | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sake | cc |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 sake | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 sake | case |
| 19 | Pete | Pete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sake | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Pete | case |
| 21 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cripes | conj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 sake | punct |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 ins | cop |
| 24 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ins | amod |
| 25 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ins | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 stand | punct |
| 27 | ins | in | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 names | case |
| 29 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 names | amod |
| 30 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 ins | nmod |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 God | punct |
| 32 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 names | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Jesus | punct |
| 34 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 God | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Christ | cc |
| 36 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 God | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 ins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | cripes and gee and Pete's sake | mild stand ins | for holy names | 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:16.
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, 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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