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title: "Montezuma's revenge" is a joking American name for diarrhoea caught… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodil… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Montezuma's revenge" is a joking American name for diarrhoea caught while travelling, especially in Mexico. Who acts: revenge, Montezuma. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 13

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"Montezuma's revenge" is a joking American name for diarrhoea caught while travelling, especially in Mexico.

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**Who acts:** revenge, Montezuma · **What happens:** joke, be, catch, travel, revenge · **To what, where:** joking American name, diarrhoea, Mexico

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions» 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 (revenge, Montezuma), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:007-wind-sick-and-runs.lesson:13
# text = "Montezuma's revenge" is a joking American name for diarrhoea caught while travelling, especially in Mexico.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 007-wind-sick-and-runs.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Montezuma	Montezuma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
9	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	diarrhoea	diarrhoea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Montezuma's revenge | a joking American name |  |  |  | for diarrhoea | tree rules |
| 3 | **catch** | participle |  | diarrhoea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **travel** | gerund |  |  |  | Mexico |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mexico=Trajectory |
| 5 | **revenge** *in a quote* |  | Montezuma |  |  |  |  |  | nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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): 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.

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