--- title: Rhyming slang swaps a word for a phrase that rhymes with it: "brown… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Rhyming slang swaps a word for a phrase that rhymes with it: "brown bread" means dead because "bread" rhymes with "dead", and "porkies" comes from "porky pies", which rhymes with "lies". Who acts: Rhyming slang, phrase, brown bread, bread. 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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 (Rhyming slang, phrase, brown bread, bread), 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:20 # text = Rhyming slang swaps a word for a phrase that rhymes with it: "brown bread" means dead because "bread" rhymes with "dead", and "porkies" comes from "porky pies", which rhymes with "lies". # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Rhyming rhyme VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 compound _ _ 2 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 swaps swap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 phrase phrase NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 rhymes rhyme VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 15 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 19 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 24 mark _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 rhymes rhyme VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obl _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 porkies porky NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 37 porky porky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 pies pie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 42 rhymes rhyme VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 45 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rhyme** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **swap** | present | Rhyming slang | a word | | | | for a phrase | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent word=Theme for phrase=Co-Theme | | 3 | **rhyme** | present | a phrase | | | | | with slang | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with it=Co-Patient | | 4 | **mean** | present | brown bread | | | | | dead *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **rhyme** | present | bread | | | | | with dead | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with dead=Co-Patient | | 6 | **come** | present | porkies | | | porky pies | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from pie=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **rhyme** | present | porky pies | | | | | with lies | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with lie=Co-Patient | 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:20`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/19/) - next →: [Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/)