--- title: Picture Gran saying "Uncle Bob's popped his clogs, Auntie May's no s… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Gran saying "Uncle Bob's popped his clogs, Auntie May's no spring chicken": Bob has died, but May is only old, so she still counts among the living. Who acts: Picture Gran, Uncle, Auntie, Bob. 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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 (Picture Gran, Uncle, Auntie, Bob), 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:4 # text = Picture Gran saying "Uncle Bob's popped his clogs, Auntie May's no spring chicken": Bob has died, but May is only old, so she still counts among the living. # 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 ×2 1 Picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 5 Uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 Bob Bob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 's have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 popped pop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 clogs clog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Auntie Auntie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 13 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 14 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 16 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 Bob Bob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 still still ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advcl 34 among among ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Picture Gran *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **pop** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Uncle | Uncle's clogs | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clog=Patient | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Auntie | no spring chicken | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **die** | present · perfect | Bob | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **is** | present | May | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **count** | present | Bob | | | | still | among the living | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:4`. **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 ×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 ★★★, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/3/) - next →: [Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/)