Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 2
Watch for traps: the same word can mean different things ("bit the dust" is a death for a villain but a breakdown for a car, "lost" can mean died, went mad or mislaid), and the scene tells you which.
Who acts: you, same word, scene · What happens: watch, mean, be, lose, die, go · To what, where: different things, death, breakdown, you · 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 (you, same word, scene), 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 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 traps | case |
| 3 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Watch | obl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 word | amod |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mean | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 mean | aux |
| 9 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Watch | parataxis |
| 10 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mean | obj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 dust | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 bit | punct |
| 14 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dust | compound |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dust | det |
| 16 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 things | acl:relcl |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 death | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 death | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 death | det |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dust | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 villain | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 villain | det |
| 23 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 death | nmod |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 breakdown | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 breakdown | det |
| 26 | breakdown | breakdown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 death | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 car | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 car | det |
| 29 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 breakdown | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 lost | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 lost | punct |
| 32 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 breakdown | acl |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 lost | punct |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 mean | aux |
| 35 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 mean | ccomp |
| 36 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 mean | ccomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 went | punct |
| 38 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 died | conj |
| 39 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 went | xcomp |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 mislaid | cc |
| 41 | mislaid | mislay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 went | conj |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 41 mislaid | punct |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 tells | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 tells | cc |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 scene | det |
| 46 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 tells | nsubj |
| 47 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Watch | conj |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 tells | iobj |
| 49 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 tells | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Watch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | imperative | you not said here | for traps | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for trap=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | can | the same word | different things | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the same word not said here | a death but a breakdown for a car | for a villain | tree rules | |||
| 4 | lose in a quote | participle | a breakdown for a car not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | mean | can | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | die | participle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 7 | go | past | mad property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | mislay | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | tell speech: assert | present | the scene | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient which=Topic |
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:2.
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 ×3, R8-pos-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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