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title: "Inside", "up the river" and "guest of His Majesty" all mean in pris… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: "Inside", "up the river" and "guest of His Majesty" all mean in prison; "under the influence" means drunk or on drugs. 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.
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# Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 19

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"Inside", "up the river" and "guest of His Majesty" all mean in prison; "under the influence" means drunk or on drugs.

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**What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** influence

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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:19
# text = "Inside", "up the river" and "guest of His Majesty" all mean in prison; "under the influence" means drunk or on drugs.
# 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	18	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
6	up	up	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
23	under	under	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	drugs	drug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	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 |  |  |  |  |  | in prison | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in prison=Attribute |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  | the influence |  | drunk *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:19`.

**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 ×4, 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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