Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 4

Picture Gran saying "Uncle Bob's popped his clogs, Auntie May's no spring chicken": Bob has died, but May is only old, so she still counts among the living.

Who acts: Picture Gran, Uncle, Auntie, Bob, May · What happens: say, pop, be, die, count · To what, where: clogs, spring chicken · 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 (Picture Gran, Uncle, Auntie, Bob), 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	Picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Gran	compound
2	Gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Gran	acl
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 popped	punct
5	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 popped	nsubj
6	Bob	Bob	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Uncle	flat
7	's	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 popped	aux
8	popped	pop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 saying	ccomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 clogs	nmod:poss
10	clogs	clog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 popped	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Auntie	punct
12	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 chicken	nsubj
13	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Auntie	flat
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 chicken	cop
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 chicken	det
16	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chicken	compound
17	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 popped	parataxis
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 chicken	punct
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 died	punct
20	Bob	Bob	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 died	nsubj
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 died	aux
22	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Gran	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 old	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 old	cc
25	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 old	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 old	cop
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 old	advmod
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 died	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 counts	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	33 counts	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 counts	nsubj
32	still	still	ADV	_	33 counts	advmod
33	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 old	parataxis
34	among	among	ADP	_	36 living	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 living	det
36	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 counts	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	Picture Gran not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pop in a quote	present · perfect	Uncle	Uncle's clogs			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clog=Patient
3	is a in a quote	present	Auntie	no spring chicken			tree rules
4	die	present · perfect	Bob				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	is	present	May			old property	tree rules
6	count	present	Bob		still	among the living	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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:4.

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 ×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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