--- title: "Popped his clogs", "snuffed it", "brown bread" and "cashed in his c… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "Popped his clogs", "snuffed it", "brown bread" and "cashed in his chips" all mean died; they are joking or slangy. Who acts: clogs. 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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 (clogs), 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:6 # text = "Popped his clogs", "snuffed it", "brown bread" and "cashed in his chips" all mean died; they are joking or slangy. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 2 Popped pop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 nsubj _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 clogs clog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 8 snuffed snuff VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 13 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 cashed cash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 chips chips NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 joking joke VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 slangy slangy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pop** *in a quote* | past | | Uncle's clogs | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clog=Patient | | 2 | **snuff** *in a quote* | past | | Gran | | | | brown bread *obl* | tree rules | | 3 | **cash** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **die** | present · passive | | all | | Uncle's chips | | | tree rules | | 5 | **joke** *speech: other* | present · progressive | clogs *= clog* | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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 ×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 ★★★, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/4/) - next →: [Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/)