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title: "Early retirement" often means being pushed out of a job before the… — Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Early retirement" often means being pushed out of a job before the usual age. Who acts: Early retirement. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 12

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"Early retirement" often means being pushed out of a job before the usual age.

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**Who acts:** Early retirement · **What happens:** mean, push out · **To what, where:** job, usual age · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy» 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 (Early retirement), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson:12
# text = "Early retirement" often means being pushed out of a job before the usual age.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	retirement	retirement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Early retirement |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **push out** | gerund · passive |  | a job |  |  | before the usual age |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: job=Theme before age=Trajectory |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson:12`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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