--- title: For age, people are kind ("golden years"), official ("senior citizen… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodil… · tree and pragmatics description: For age, people are kind ("golden years"), official ("senior citizen"), or cheeky ("no spring chicken", "over the hill"). Who acts: people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:008-toilets-and-getting-older.lesson:2 # text = For age, people are kind ("golden years"), official ("senior citizen"), or cheeky ("no spring chicken", "over the hill"). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 008-toilets-and-getting-older.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 17 senior senior ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 citizen citizen NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 cheeky cheeky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 26 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 det _ _ 27 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 32 over over ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | people | | | the hill | for age | kind *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | people *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | people *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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](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:008-toilets-and-getting-older.lesson:2`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: the toilet…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: the toilet…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/)