--- title: Other words for death do the opposite and joke about it: "kicked the… — Soft words for hard things: death and dying · tree and pragmatics description: Other words for death do the opposite and joke about it: "kicked the bucket", "croaked" or "pushing up daisies" are rough and funny, fine for a dead goldfish or a film villain but hurtful at a real funeral. Who acts: Other words, pushing daisies. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Other words, pushing daisies), 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:2 # text = Other words for death do the opposite and joke about it: "kicked the bucket", "croaked" or "pushing up daisies" are rough and funny, fine for a dead goldfish or a film villain but hurtful at a real funeral. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 opposite opposite NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 kicked kick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bucket bucket NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 croaked croak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 pushing push VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 amod _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 daisies daisy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 goldfish goldfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 villain villain NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 42 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 hurtful hurtful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 44 at at ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | Other words for death | the opposite and joke about Death | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposite=Eventuality | | 2 | **kick** *in a quote* | past | Other words for death *not said here* | the bucket | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bucket=Patient | | 3 | **croak** *in a quote* | participle | Other words for death *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **push up** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | pushing daisies | | | | | rough *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | pushing daisies *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | pushing daisies *not said here* | | | | | for a dead goldfish or a film villain | tree rules | 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](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:2`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/)