Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 6

"Popped his clogs", "snuffed it", "brown bread" and "cashed in his chips" all mean died; they are joking or slangy.

Who acts: clogs · What happens: pop, snuff, cash, die, joke · To what, where: clogs, Gran, all, chips · 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 (clogs), 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 Popped	punct
2	Popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 snuffed	nsubj
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 clogs	nmod:poss
4	clogs	clog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Popped	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 clogs	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clogs	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 snuffed	punct
8	snuffed	snuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 snuffed	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 snuffed	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bread	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 bread	punct
13	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bread	amod
14	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snuffed	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 bread	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cashed	cc
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 cashed	punct
18	cashed	cash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bread	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 chips	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 chips	nmod:poss
21	chips	chips	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 died	obl
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 chips	punct
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 died	nsubj:pass
24	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 died	aux:pass
25	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 cashed	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 joking	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 joking	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 joking	aux
29	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 snuffed	advcl
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 slangy	cc
31	slangy	slangy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 joking	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 snuffed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pop in a quote	past		Uncle's clogs			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clog=Patient
2	snuff in a quote	past		Gran		brown bread obl	tree rules
3	cash in a quote	past					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	die	present · passive		all	Uncle's chips		tree rules
5	joke speech: other	present · progressive	clogs = clog				vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:6.

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 ×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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