Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks, sentence 3

Vivid example: a birthday card for Dad's 50th shows a car rolling down a hill and says "Over the hill!" — he is not on a hill; the joke means he is getting old.

Who acts: birthday card, car, card, Vivid example, joke · What happens: show, roll down, say, not be, mean, get · To what, where: car, hill · 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 (birthday card, car, card, Vivid example), 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	Vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 example	amod
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 means	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 hill	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 card	det
5	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 card	compound
6	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shows	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 50th	case
8	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 50th	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Dad	case
10	50th	50th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	6 card	nmod
11	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 example	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 car	det
13	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shows	obj
14	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 car	acl
15	down	down	ADP	_	17 hill	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hill	det
17	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rolling	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 says	cc
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shows	conj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 hill	punct
21	Over	over	ADP	_	23 hill	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hill	det
23	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 says	ccomp
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 hill	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 hill	punct
26	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 shows	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hill	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 hill	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 hill	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 hill	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hill	det
32	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 example	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 joke	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 joke	det
35	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 means	nsubj
36	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 getting	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 getting	aux
39	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 means	ccomp
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 getting	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	present	a birthday card for Dad's 50th	a car			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent car=Recipient
2	roll down	gerund	a car not said here	a hill			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	a birthday card for Dad's 50th not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is	present	card		a hill		tree rules
5	mean	present	Vivid example and a hill				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	get	present · progressive	joke			old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. 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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