Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 22

"Lost her husband" means he died; "lost the plot" and "lost his marbles" mean went mad or got very confused.

Who acts: husband · What happens: lose, mean, die, go, get · To what, where: husband, plot, marbles · 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 (husband), 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 Lost	punct
2	Lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 means	csubj
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 husband	nmod:poss
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Lost	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lost	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 died	nsubj
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 means	ccomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
11	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Lost	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 plot	det
13	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lost	cc
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 lost	punct
17	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lost	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 marbles	nmod:poss
19	marbles	marble	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lost	obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 lost	punct
21	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	parataxis
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 mean	ccomp
23	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 went	xcomp
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 got	cc
25	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 went	conj
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 confused	advmod
27	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 got	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	participle		person's husband		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality
2	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	die	past	husband			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	lose in a quote	past		the plot		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Eventuality
5	lose in a quote	past		husband's marbles		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marble=Eventuality
6	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	go	past			mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	get	past			confused property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:22.

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 ×3, 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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