--- title: Vivid example: a birthday card for Dad's 50th shows a car rolling do… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodil… · tree and pragmatics description: Vivid example: a birthday card for Dad's 50th shows a car rolling down a hill and says "Over the hill!" — he is not on a hill; the joke means he is getting old. Who acts: birthday card, car, card, Vivid example. 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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 (birthday card, car, card, Vivid example), 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:3 # text = Vivid example: a birthday card for Dad's 50th shows a car rolling down a hill and says "Over the hill!" — he is not on a hill; the joke means he is getting old. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Vivid vivid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod:poss 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 50th 50th ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 6 nmod _ _ 11 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 rolling roll VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 down down ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 19 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 Over over ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 ccomp _ _ 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 26 — - PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 ccomp _ _ 40 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | a birthday card for Dad's 50th | a car | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent car=Recipient | | 2 | **roll down** | gerund | a car *not said here* | a hill | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a birthday card for Dad's 50th *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | card | | | a hill | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | Vivid example and a hill | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **get** | present · progressive | joke | | | | | old *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. **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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/2/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: the toilet…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/)