Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 8
"A retirement community" is a housing estate built for old people.
Who acts: retirement community · What happens: be, build · To what, where: housing estate
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight» 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 (retirement community), 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 | _ | 4 community | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 community | det |
| 3 | retirement | retirement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 community | compound |
| 4 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 estate | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 community | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 estate | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 estate | det |
| 8 | housing | housing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 estate | compound |
| 9 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 estate | acl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 built | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 estate | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a retirement community | a housing estate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | participle | a housing estate not said here | for old people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for people=Beneficiary |
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:009-age-looks-and-size.lesson:8.
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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