Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks, sentence 22
"No spring chicken" is a joking way to say not young any more.
Who acts: spring chicken · What happens: joke, be, say · To what, where: joking way · 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 (spring chicken), 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 | _ | 9 way | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 chicken | det |
| 3 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chicken | compound |
| 4 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 way | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 chicken | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 8 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 way | acl |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 young | advmod |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 say | ccomp |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 more | det |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 young | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, voice=narrator
| # | 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 | no spring chicken | a joking way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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:008-toilets-and-getting-older.lesson:22.
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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