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title: "Getting on", "no spring chicken" and "past his prime" mean old, not… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: "Getting on", "no spring chicken" and "past his prime" mean old, not dead. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 7

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"Getting on", "no spring chicken" and "past his prime" mean old, not dead.

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**What happens:** get on, mean · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:7
# text = "Getting on", "no spring chicken" and "past his prime" mean old, not dead.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.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): R6-punct-agree ×4
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
8	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
13	past	past	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	prime	prime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get on** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:7`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×4. **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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