Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks, sentence 18
"Getting on" means growing old.
Who acts: Getting · What happens: get on, mean, grow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks» 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 (Getting), 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 | 5 means | csubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 Getting | compound:prt |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Getting | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 growing | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | 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 | Getting | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | grow not said to happen | gerund | Getting not said here | old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:008-toilets-and-getting-older.lesson:18.
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 ×2. 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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