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title: "Sanitation engineer" is a joking or puffed-up name for a rubbish or… — Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sanitation engineer" is a joking or puffed-up name for a rubbish or garbage collector (US). Who acts: Sanitation engineer. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 24

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"Sanitation engineer" is a joking or puffed-up name for a rubbish or garbage collector (US).

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**Who acts:** Sanitation engineer · **What happens:** joke, puff up, be · **To what, where:** joking name

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy» 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 (Sanitation engineer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson:24
# text = "Sanitation engineer" is a joking or puffed-up name for a rubbish or garbage collector (US).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 021-work-firing-and-the-economy.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): R4-particle ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Sanitation	sanitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	engineer	engineer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
7	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	amod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	puffed	puff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=9:compound
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	garbage	garbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	collector	collector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **puff up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Sanitation engineer | a joking name |  |  |  | for a rubbish or garbage collector | 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:021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson:24`.

**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): R4-particle ×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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