Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 7
"Getting on", "no spring chicken" and "past his prime" mean old, not dead.
What happens: get on, mean · 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Getting | punct |
| 2 | Getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 Getting | compound:prt |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Getting | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Getting | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 chicken | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 chicken | det |
| 8 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chicken | compound |
| 9 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Getting | conj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 chicken | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 prime | cc |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 prime | punct |
| 13 | past | past | ADP | _ | 15 prime | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 prime | nmod:poss |
| 15 | prime | prime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Getting | conj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 prime | punct |
| 17 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mean | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dead | punct |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 dead | advmod |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 old | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get on in a quote | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | old property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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, 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:7.
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 ×4. 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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