Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks, sentence 23

"Over the hill" is a joking way to say past one's best because of age.

Who acts: hill · 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 (hill), 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	Over	over	ADP	_	4 hill	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hill	det
4	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hill	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	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 best	nsubj
14	's	's	PART	_	13 one	case
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 say	ccomp
16	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	18 age	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 because	fixed
18	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 best	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 way	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	joke speech: other	gerund			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the hill	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:23.

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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