Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 0
Companies hide extra costs, broken products and bad results behind soft words; politicians hide taxes and untruths the same way.
Who acts: Companies, politicians · What happens: hide, break · To what, where: extra costs, soft words, taxes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» 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 (Companies, politicians), 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 | Companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hide | nsubj |
| 2 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 costs | amod |
| 4 | costs | cost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hide | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 products | punct |
| 6 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 products | amod |
| 7 | products | product | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 costs | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 results | cc |
| 9 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 results | amod |
| 10 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 costs | conj |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 words | case |
| 12 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hide | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 hide | punct |
| 15 | politicians | politician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hide | nsubj |
| 16 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hide | parataxis |
| 17 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hide | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 untruths | cc |
| 19 | untruths | untruth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 taxes | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 way | amod |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hide | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | Companies | extra costs and broken products and bad results | soft words | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cost=Patient behind word=Location | |||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | hide | present | politicians | taxes and untruths | the same way obl:unmarked | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=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:023-fees-bugs-and-spin.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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