Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 12
"Early retirement" often means being pushed out of a job before the usual age.
Who acts: Early retirement · What happens: mean, push out · To what, where: job, usual age · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy» 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 (Early retirement), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 retirement | punct |
| 2 | Early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 retirement | amod |
| 3 | retirement | retirement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 retirement | punct |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 means | advmod |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 pushed | aux:pass |
| 8 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 means | ccomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 job | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 job | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 job | det |
| 12 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pushed | obl |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 age | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 age | det |
| 15 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 age | amod |
| 16 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pushed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Early retirement | often property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | push out | gerund · passive | a job | before the usual age | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: job=Theme before age=Trajectory |
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, 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:021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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