Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 3
Economists do the same with bad news: "negative growth" sounds like growing, but it means the economy got smaller.
Who acts: negative growth, it, economy · What happens: sound, grow, mean, get · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (negative growth, it, economy), 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 | Economists | economist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 do | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 same | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 news | case |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 news | amod |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 same | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 sounds | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 growth | punct |
| 10 | negative | negative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 growth | amod |
| 11 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sounds | nsubj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 growth | punct |
| 13 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 same | parataxis |
| 14 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 15 growing | mark |
| 15 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 sounds | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 means | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 means | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 means | nsubj |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sounds | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 economy | det |
| 21 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 got | nsubj |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 means | ccomp |
| 23 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 got | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 do | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | negative growth | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | negative growth not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get | past | the economy | small property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:3.
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 ×1, R6-punct-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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