Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks, sentence 2
For age, people are kind ("golden years"), official ("senior citizen"), or cheeky ("no spring chicken", "over the hill").
Who acts: people · What happens: be · To what, where: hill
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 (people), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 age | case |
| 2 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 age | punct |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | cop |
| 6 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 years | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 years | punct |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 years | amod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kind | parataxis |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 years | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 years | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 official | punct |
| 14 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | conj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 citizen | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 citizen | punct |
| 17 | senior | senior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 citizen | amod |
| 18 | citizen | citizen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 official | appos |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 citizen | punct |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 citizen | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cheeky | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 cheeky | cc |
| 23 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | conj |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 chicken | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 chicken | punct |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 chicken | det |
| 27 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 chicken | compound |
| 28 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cheeky | conj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 chicken | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 hill | punct |
| 32 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 hill | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 hill | det |
| 34 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | obl |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 hill | punct |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | people | the hill | for age | kind property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | be | people not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | people not said here | tree rules |
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:2.
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 ×3, 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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