--- title: "Bit the big one" means died; it is American slang. — Soft words for hard things: death and dying, ill… · tree and pragmatics description: "Bit the big one" means died; it is American slang. Who acts: sleep. 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 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/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/9/) [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: death and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/) / 9 # Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body, sentence 9 "Bit the big one" means died; it is American slang. **Who acts:** sleep · **What happens:** bite, mean, die, be · **To what, where:** big one, American slang · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (sleep), 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:9 # text = "Bit the big one" means died; it is American slang. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 2 Bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** *in a quote* | past | | the big one | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **die** | past | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **is a** | present | sleep | American slang | | | | | 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:003-death-and-feeling-poorly.lesson:9`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/8/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/)