--- title: "Lost her husband" means he died; "lost the plot" and "lost his marb… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "Lost her husband" means he died; "lost the plot" and "lost his marbles" mean went mad or got very confused. Who acts: husband. 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 clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/) / 22 # Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 22 "Lost her husband" means he died; "lost the plot" and "lost his marbles" mean went mad or got very confused. **Who acts:** husband · **What happens:** lose, mean, die, go, get · **To what, where:** husband, plot, marbles · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (husband), 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:22 # text = "Lost her husband" means he died; "lost the plot" and "lost his marbles" mean went mad or got very confused. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 plot plot NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 marbles marble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 21 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 22 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 23 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 confused confused ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** *in a quote* | participle | | person's husband | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **die** | past | husband | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | | the plot | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Eventuality | | 5 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | | husband's marbles | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marble=Eventuality | | 6 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **go** | past | | | | | | mad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **get** | past | | | | | | confused *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:22`. **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 ×3, 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 ★★★, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/21/) - next →: [Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/)