Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty, sentence 1
Farmers, hunters and officials often use dry words like "culled", "processed" or "pest control" so killing sounds like ordinary work.
Who acts: Farmers, killing · What happens: use, cull, process, sound · To what, where: dry words
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» 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 (Farmers, killing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 use | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hunters | punct |
| 3 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Farmers | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 officials | cc |
| 5 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Farmers | conj |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 use | advmod |
| 7 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 words | amod |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 use | obj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 culled | case |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 culled | punct |
| 12 | culled | cull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 words | nmod |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 culled | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 processed | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 processed | punct |
| 16 | processed | process | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 culled | conj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 processed | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 control | cc |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 control | punct |
| 20 | pest | pest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 control | compound |
| 21 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 culled | conj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 control | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 sounds | advmod |
| 24 | killing | killing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sounds | nsubj |
| 25 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 use | advcl |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 work | case |
| 27 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 work | amod |
| 28 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sounds | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 use | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Farmers and hunters and officials | dry words | often property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | |||
| 2 | cull in a quote | participle | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | process in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | sound | present | killing | like ordinary work | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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, 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:018-pets-and-money.lesson:1.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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