--- title: "Went to the glue factory" is a joking way to say an old horse was s… — Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and… · tree and pragmatics description: "Went to the glue factory" is a joking way to say an old horse was slaughtered. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: animals an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/) / 18 # Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty, sentence 18 "Went to the glue factory" is a joking way to say an old horse was slaughtered. **What happens:** go, joke, be, say, slaughter · **To what, where:** glue factory, joking way, old horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:018-pets-and-money.lesson:18 # text = "Went to the glue factory" is a joking way to say an old horse was slaughtered. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 018-pets-and-money.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj 3 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 glue glue NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 factory factory NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 joking joke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obj 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 slaughtered slaughter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl 19 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | past | | | | the glue factory | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to factory=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | | a joking way | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **slaughter** | past · passive | | a old horse | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:018-pets-and-money.lesson:18`. **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, R7-rel-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: animals an…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/17/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: animals an…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/)