Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 20

Rhyming slang swaps a word for a phrase that rhymes with it: "brown bread" means dead because "bread" rhymes with "dead", and "porkies" comes from "porky pies", which rhymes with "lies".

Who acts: Rhyming slang, phrase, brown bread, bread, porkies, porky pies · What happens: rhyme, swap, mean, come · To what, where: word, porky pies

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 (Rhyming slang, phrase, brown bread, bread), 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	Rhyming	rhyme	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 slang	compound
2	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swaps	nsubj
3	swaps	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swaps	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 phrase	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 phrase	det
8	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swaps	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 rhymes	nsubj
10	rhymes	rhyme	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 phrase	acl:relcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rhymes	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 means	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 bread	punct
15	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bread	amod
16	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 means	nsubj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 bread	punct
18	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swaps	parataxis
19	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 means	xcomp
20	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	24 rhymes	mark
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 bread	punct
22	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rhymes	nsubj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 bread	punct
24	rhymes	rhyme	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 means	advcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 dead	case
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 dead	punct
27	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rhymes	obl
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 dead	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 comes	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 comes	cc
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 porkies	punct
32	porkies	porky	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 comes	nsubj
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 porkies	punct
34	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 means	conj
35	from	from	ADP	_	38 pies	case
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 pies	punct
37	porky	porky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 pies	amod
38	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 comes	obl
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 pies	punct
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 rhymes	punct
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 rhymes	nsubj
42	rhymes	rhyme	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 pies	acl:relcl
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 lies	case
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 lies	punct
45	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 rhymes	obl
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 lies	punct
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swaps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rhyme	gerund					vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	swap	present	Rhyming slang	a word		for a phrase	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent word=Theme for phrase=Co-Theme
3	rhyme	present	a phrase			with slang	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with it=Co-Patient
4	mean	present	brown bread			dead property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	rhyme	present	bread			with dead	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with dead=Co-Patient
6	come	present	porkies		porky pies		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pie=Initial_Location
7	rhyme	present	porky pies			with lies	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with lie=Co-Patient

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:20.

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, R7-rel-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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