Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 20
"Quantitative easing" means the central bank (the country's own bank, in charge of its money) creating new money.
Who acts: Quantitative, central bank · What happens: mean, create, charge · To what, where: central bank, new money, money
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Quantitative, central bank), 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 | _ | 2 Quantitative | punct |
| 2 | Quantitative | Quantitative | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 3 | easing | easing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Quantitative | flat |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 easing | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bank | det |
| 7 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bank | amod |
| 8 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 bank | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bank | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 country | case |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bank | amod |
| 14 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bank | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 charge | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 charge | case |
| 17 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bank | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 money | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 money | nmod:poss |
| 20 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 charge | nmod |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 bank | punct |
| 22 | creating | create | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 bank | acl |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 money | amod |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 creating | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Quantitative | the central bank | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Topic | ||||
| 2 | create | gerund | the central bank not said here | new money | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Result | ||||
| 3 | charge | bank's money | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |
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:021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson:20.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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