--- title: "Put to sleep" means an animal was killed gently by a vet; "crossed… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "Put to sleep" means an animal was killed gently by a vet; "crossed the rainbow bridge" means a pet died. Who acts: vet, pet. 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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 9 "Put to sleep" means an animal was killed gently by a vet; "crossed the rainbow bridge" means a pet died. **Who acts:** vet, pet · **What happens:** put, mean, kill, cross, die · **To what, where:** animal, rainbow bridge · **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 (vet, pet), 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:9 # text = "Put to sleep" means an animal was killed gently by a vet; "crossed the rainbow bridge" means a pet died. # 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 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 nsubj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 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 17 parataxis _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 ccomp _ _ 11 gently gently ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 17 crossed cross VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 rainbow rainbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | to sleep | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **kill** | past · passive | a vet | a animal | | | | gently *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 4 | **cross** *in a quote* | past | | the rainbow bridge | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **die** | past | a pet | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:9`. **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. **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 ★★★, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/8/) - next →: [Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/)