Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 1

A "convenience fee" sounds like a favour, but it is simply an extra charge for paying the way the shop chose for you.

Who acts: convenience fee, fee, extra charge, shop · What happens: sound, be, pay, choose · To what, where: extra charge, way

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 (convenience fee, fee, extra charge, shop), 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	4 fee	det
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fee	punct
3	convenience	convenience	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fee	compound
4	fee	fee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sounds	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fee	punct
6	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 favour	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 favour	det
9	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sounds	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 charge	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 charge	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 charge	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 charge	cop
14	simply	simply	ADV	_	17 charge	advmod
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 charge	det
16	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 charge	amod
17	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sounds	conj
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 paying	mark
19	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 charge	acl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 paying	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shop	det
23	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 chose	nsubj
24	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 way	acl:relcl
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 chose	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sounds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sound	present	a convenience fee		like a favour	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present	fee	a extra charge	simply property	tree rules
3	pay	gerund	a extra charge not said here	the way		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Asset
4	choose	past	the shop	the way not said here	for you	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent way=Theme for you=Beneficiary

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:1.

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): no change. 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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