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title: "Assumed room temperature" means died; it is a dark American joke, b… — Soft words for hard things: death and dying, ill… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Assumed room temperature" means died; it is a dark American joke, because a dead body cools down. Who acts: Assumed room temperature, temperature, dead body. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body, sentence 20

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"Assumed room temperature" means died; it is a dark American joke, because a dead body cools down.

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**Who acts:** Assumed room temperature, temperature, dead body · **What happens:** assume, mean, die, be, cool down · **To what, where:** dark American joke · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:003-death-and-feeling-poorly.lesson:20
# text = "Assumed room temperature" means died; it is a dark American joke, because a dead body cools down.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 003-death-and-feeling-poorly.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Assumed	assume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	20	mark	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assume** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Assumed room temperature |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **die** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **is a** | present | temperature | a dark American joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cool down** | present | a dead body |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient 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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**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:003-death-and-feeling-poorly.lesson:20`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

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

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