Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 1

Hospitals, armies and governments use cold official words, such as "negative patient outcome" or "collateral damage", so that a death sounds like a number in a report instead of a person.

Who acts: Hospitals, death · What happens: use, sound · To what, where: cold official words

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» 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 (Hospitals, death), 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	Hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 use	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 armies	punct
3	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hospitals	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 governments	cc
5	governments	government	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hospitals	conj
6	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
8	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 use	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 outcome	punct
11	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	16 outcome	case
12	as	as	ADP	_	11 such	fixed
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 outcome	punct
14	negative	negative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 outcome	amod
15	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 outcome	compound
16	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 words	nmod
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 outcome	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 damage	cc
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 damage	punct
20	collateral	collateral	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 damage	compound
21	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 outcome	conj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 damage	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sounds	punct
24	so	so	SCONJ	_	28 sounds	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 sounds	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 death	det
27	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sounds	nsubj
28	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 use	advcl
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 number	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 number	det
31	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sounds	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 report	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 report	det
34	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 number	nmod
35	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	38 person	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	35 instead	fixed
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 person	det
38	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sounds	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Hospitals and armies and governments	cold official words				such negative patient outcome or collateral damage	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	sound	present	a death					like a number in a report; instead a person	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:002-death-official-and-slang.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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