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title: "The other place" (old-fashioned, UK) means hell. — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs a… · tree and pragmatics
description: "The other place" (old-fashioned, UK) means hell. Who acts: other place. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate, sentence 18

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"The other place" (old-fashioned, UK) means hell.

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**Who acts:** other place · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** hell

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» 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 (other place), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.lesson:18
# text = "The other place" (old-fashioned, UK) means hell.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | the other place | hell |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hell=Topic |

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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:031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.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): 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/).

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