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title: "Mature" in adverts and dating means older, for example "mature stud… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodil… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Mature" in adverts and dating means older, for example "mature students". Who acts: Mature. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks, sentence 24

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"Mature" in adverts and dating means older, for example "mature students".

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**Who acts:** Mature · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** older

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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 (Mature), 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:24
# text = "Mature" in adverts and dating means older, for example "mature students".
# 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 ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Mature	mature	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	adverts	advert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	dating	dating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
14	mature	mature	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Mature and mature students for example | older |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent old=Topic |

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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:008-toilets-and-getting-older.lesson:24`.

**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 ×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/).

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