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title: "Six feet under" means dead and buried, because graves were dug abou… — Soft words for hard things: death and dying · tree and pragmatics
description: "Six feet under" means dead and buried, because graves were dug about six feet deep. Who acts: Six feet. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 12

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"Six feet under" means dead and buried, because graves were dug about six feet deep.

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**Who acts:** Six feet · **What happens:** mean, bury, dug · **To what, where:** dead, graves

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» 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 (Six feet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:001-death-polite-and-joking.lesson:12
# text = "Six feet under" means dead and buried, because graves were dug about six feet deep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 001-death-polite-and-joking.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	under	under	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	dug	dug	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
16	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl
18	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Six feet | dead |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Topic |
| 2 | **bury** | participle | Six feet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dug** | past · passive |  | graves |  |  |  | deep *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:001-death-polite-and-joking.lesson:12`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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