--- title: "Laid up" means ill or injured in bed, not dead; "laid to rest" mean… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "Laid up" means ill or injured in bed, not dead; "laid to rest" means buried. 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 clause. --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 8 "Laid up" means ill or injured in bed, not dead; "laid to rest" means buried. **What happens:** lay up, mean, lay, rest, bury · **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: 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:8 # text = "Laid up" means ill or injured in bed, not dead; "laid to rest" means buried. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 nsubj _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 injured injured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 16 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 nsubj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 20 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 21 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 xcomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay up** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | ill *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lay** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **rest** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **bury** *not said to happen* | participle | | | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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:8`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/7/) - next →: [Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/)