--- title: Watch for traps: the same word can mean different things ("bit the d… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Watch for traps: the same word can mean different things ("bit the dust" is a death for a villain but a breakdown for a car, "lost" can mean died, went mad or mislaid), and the scene tells you which. Who acts: you, same word, scene. 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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: who acts (you, same word, scene), 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:2 # text = Watch for traps: the same word can mean different things ("bit the dust" is a death for a villain but a breakdown for a car, "lost" can mean died, went mad or mislaid), and the scene tells you which. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 traps trap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 10 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 villain villain NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 breakdown breakdown NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 36 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 ccomp _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis 39 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 mislaid mislay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 scene scene NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 47 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 48 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 iobj _ _ 49 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 obj _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | for traps | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for trap=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | can | the same word | different things | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | the same word *not said here* | a death but a breakdown for a car | | | | for a villain | tree rules | | 4 | **lose** *in a quote* | participle | | a breakdown for a car *not said here* | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | can | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **die** | participle | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **go** | past | | | | | | mad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **mislay** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the scene | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient which=Topic | 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:2`. **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 ×3, R8-pos-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: [Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/1/) - next →: [Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/)