Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks, sentence 4

Advertisers and officials like soft age words too: "mature students" or "senior discount" sound nicer than "old students" or "old people's discount".

Who acts: Advertisers, old people · What happens: sound, discount

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 (Advertisers, old 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	Advertisers	advertiser	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sound	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 officials	cc
3	officials	official	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Advertisers	conj
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 words	case
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 age	amod
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 words	compound
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 officials	nmod
8	too	too	ADV	_	4 like	advmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 students	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 students	punct
11	mature	mature	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 students	amod
12	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sound	nsubj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 students	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 sound	cc
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 discount	punct
16	senior	senior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 discount	amod
17	discount	discount	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 students	conj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 discount	punct
19	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 sound	xcomp
21	than	than	ADP	_	24 students	case
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 students	punct
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 students	amod
24	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 nicer	obl
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 students	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 discount	cc
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 discount	punct
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 discount	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 people	case
31	discount	discount	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 students	conj
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 discount	punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 sound	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	Advertisers and officials like age words					nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	discount in a quote		old people						nom discount «act transitive»: poss=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:4.

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): R5-strong ×4, 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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