--- title: "Let go", "shown the door", "laid off" and "relieved of his duties"… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "Let go", "shown the door", "laid off" and "relieved of his duties" all mean lost a job; "relieved of his duties" is official, "shown the door" is everyday talk. 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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:13 # text = "Let go", "shown the door", "laid off" and "relieved of his duties" all mean lost a job; "relieved of his duties" is official, "shown the door" is everyday talk. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 3 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 7 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 13 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 relieved relieved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:compound 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 duties duty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 30 relieved relieve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 duties duty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 parataxis _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 39 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 nsubj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 everyday everyday ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 parataxis _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **show** *in a quote* | participle | | the door | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Recipient | | 4 | **lay off** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **lose** | past | | a job | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 7 | **relieve** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | of UK's duties | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer of duty=Theme | | 8 | **is** | present | | | | | | official *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **show** *in a quote* | participle | | the door | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Recipient | | 10 | **is a** | present | | everyday talk | | | | | 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:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:13`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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