Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 9

"Put to sleep" means an animal was killed gently by a vet; "crossed the rainbow bridge" means a pet died.

Who acts: vet, pet · What happens: put, mean, kill, cross, die · To what, where: animal, rainbow bridge · 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 (vet, pet), 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 Put	punct
2	Put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 means	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 sleep	case
4	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Put	obl
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Put	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 crossed	parataxis
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 animal	det
8	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 killed	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 killed	aux:pass
10	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 means	ccomp
11	gently	gently	ADV	_	10 killed	advmod
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 vet	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 vet	det
14	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 killed	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Put	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 crossed	punct
17	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bridge	det
19	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bridge	compound
20	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crossed	obj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 crossed	punct
22	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 crossed	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pet	det
24	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 died	nsubj
25	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 means	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put in a quote	infinitive			to sleep	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	kill	past · passive	a vet	a animal	gently property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	cross in a quote	past		the rainbow bridge		tree rules
5	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	die	past	a pet			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:9.

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. 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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