--- title: "Spend a penny", "powder my nose" and "freshen up" can all mean go t… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "Spend a penny", "powder my nose" and "freshen up" can all mean go to the toilet. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» 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/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/12/) [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/) / [Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/) / 12 # Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 12 "Spend a penny", "powder my nose" and "freshen up" can all mean go to the toilet. **What happens:** spend, powder, freshen up, mean, go · **To what, where:** penny, nose, toilet · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:12 # text = "Spend a penny", "powder my nose" and "freshen up" can all mean go to the toilet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.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 ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Spend spend VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 nsubj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 penny penny NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 8 powder powder VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 freshen freshen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 all all ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 mean mean VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a penny | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Asset | | 2 | **powder** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my nose | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient | | 3 | **freshen up** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **mean** | can | | | | | | all *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **go** *not said to happen* | infinitive | | | | the toilet | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial\_Location | 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:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:12`. **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 ×3. **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: [Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/10/) - next →: [Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/)