Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 8
"Collateral damage" is official military language for ordinary people killed or property destroyed by accident in an attack.
Who acts: Collateral damage · What happens: be, kill, destroy · To what, where: official military language, ordinary people, attack
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 (Collateral damage), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 damage | punct |
| 2 | Collateral | collateral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 damage | compound |
| 3 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 language | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 damage | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 language | cop |
| 6 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 language | amod |
| 7 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 language | amod |
| 8 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 10 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 language | nmod |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 people | acl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 property | cc |
| 14 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 people | conj |
| 15 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 people | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 accident | case |
| 17 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 destroyed | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 attack | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 attack | det |
| 20 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 destroyed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 language | 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 | is a | present | Collateral damage | official military language | for ordinary people or property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kill | participle | ordinary people or property not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | destroy | participle | ordinary people or property not said here | a attack | by accident | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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, 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:8.
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): no change. 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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