Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 0
Banks and companies use dry, technical words so that debt and job losses sound like ordinary paperwork.
Who acts: Banks, debt · What happens: use, sound · To what, where: dry technical words
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» 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 (Banks, debt), 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 | Banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 companies | cc |
| 3 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Banks | conj |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dry | punct |
| 7 | technical | technical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | obj |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 15 sound | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 so | fixed |
| 11 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sound | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 job | cc |
| 13 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 debt | conj |
| 14 | losses | loss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 debt | conj |
| 15 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | advcl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 paperwork | case |
| 17 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 paperwork | amod |
| 18 | paperwork | paperwork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sound | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | Banks and companies | dry technical words | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sound | present | debt and job and losses | like ordinary paperwork | 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:020-debt-and-jobs.lesson:0.
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. 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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