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title: "The late" before a name means the person has died, so "the late Mr… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: "The late" before a name means the person has died, so "the late Mr Jones" can never come to next week's party. Who acts: name, person, late Mr. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 21

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"The late" before a name means the person has died, so "the late Mr Jones" can never come to next week's party.

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**Who acts:** name, person, late Mr · **What happens:** mean, die, not come · **To what, where:** party · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (name, person, late Mr), 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:21
# text = "The late" before a name means the person has died, so "the late Mr Jones" can never come to next week's party.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	Jones	Jones	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
25	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | a name |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **die** | present · perfect | the person |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **come** | can | the late Mr |  |  | next week's party |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial\_Location |

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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:21`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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