Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 2

A company that sacks hundreds of workers may call it "downsizing", "rightsizing" or "restructuring", which is spin to make it sound sensible.

Who acts: company, restructuring, money · What happens: sack, call, be, make, sound · To what, where: hundreds, money, spin · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (company, restructuring, money), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 company	det
2	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 call	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sacks	nsubj
4	sacks	sack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 company	acl:relcl
5	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sacks	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 workers	case
7	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hundreds	nmod
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 call	aux
9	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 call	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 downsizing	punct
12	downsizing	downsizing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 call	xcomp
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 downsizing	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rightsizing	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 rightsizing	punct
16	rightsizing	rightsize	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 downsizing	conj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 rightsizing	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 restructuring	cc
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 restructuring	punct
20	restructuring	restructuring	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rightsizing	conj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 restructuring	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spin	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 spin	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 spin	cop
25	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 restructuring	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 make	mark
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 rightsizing	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 make	obj
29	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 make	xcomp
30	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sound	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sack	present	a company	hundreds of workers		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme
2	call	may	a company	money		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
3	is a	present	restructuring	spin		tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	a company not said here	money		tree rules
5	sound	infinitive	money not said here		sensible property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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:2.

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, R8-pos-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.

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