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title: "Expired" means died; it is medical or official jargon (a ticket or… — Soft words for hard things: death and dying · tree and pragmatics
description: "Expired" means died; it is medical or official jargon (a ticket or a carton of milk can also "expire"). Who acts: Expired, battle, ticket. 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 pragma
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# Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 22

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"Expired" means died; it is medical or official jargon (a ticket or a carton of milk can also "expire").

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**Who acts:** Expired, battle, ticket · **What happens:** mean, die, be, expire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Expired, battle, ticket), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:002-death-official-and-slang.lesson:22
# text = "Expired" means died; it is medical or official jargon (a ticket or a carton of milk can also "expire").
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 002-death-official-and-slang.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 ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Expired	expired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	jargon	jargon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ticket	ticket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	carton	carton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	expire	expire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | Expired |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **die** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | present | battle |  |  |  |  | medical *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | battle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **expire** *in a quote* | can | a ticket or a carton of milk |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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 ×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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