--- title: Advertisers and officials like soft age words too: "mature students"… — Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodil… · tree and pragmatics description: Advertisers and officials like soft age words too: "mature students" or "senior discount" sound nicer than "old students" or "old people's discount". Who acts: Advertisers, old people. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks» of the eup --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: the toilet…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/) / 4 # Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks, sentence 4 Advertisers and officials like soft age words too: "mature students" or "senior discount" sound nicer than "old students" or "old people's discount". **Who acts:** Advertisers, old people · **What happens:** sound, discount 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 (Advertisers, old 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:4 # text = Advertisers and officials like soft age words too: "mature students" or "senior discount" sound nicer than "old students" or "old people's discount". # 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Advertisers advertiser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 officials official NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 8 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advmod 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 mature mature ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 students student NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:appos 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 senior senior ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 discount discount NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:compound 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 nicer nice ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 xcomp _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 23 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 students student NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 28 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 's 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 discount discount NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | present | Advertisers and officials like age words | | | | | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **discount** *in a quote* | | old people | | | | | | nom discount «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:4`. **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): R5-strong ×4, 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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/3/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: the toilet…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/)