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Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 2

Programmers joke that a bug is an "undocumented feature", and a firm that lost a fortune may call it "a learning experience".

Who acts: Programmers, bug, firm · What happens: joke, be, lose, call · To what, where: undocumented feature, fortune · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Programmers, bug, firm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

nsubjmarkdetnsubjcopdetpunctamodccomppunctpunctccdetnsubjnsubjacl:relcldetobjauxconjobjpunctdetcompoundxcomppunctpunctrootProgrammersNOUNjokeVERBthatSCONJaDETbugNOUNisAUXanDET"PUNCTundocumentedADJfeatureNOUN"PUNCT,PUNCTandCCONJaDETfirmNOUNthatPRONlostVERBaDETfortuneNOUNmayAUXcallVERBitPRON"PUNCTaDETlearningNOUNexperienceNOUN"PUNCT.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ProgrammersprogrammerNOUNNumber=Plur2 jokensubj
2jokejokeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thatthatSCONJ_10 featuremark
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 bugdet
5bugbugNOUNNumber=Sing10 featurensubj
6isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 featurecop
7anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 featuredet
8""PUNCT_10 featurepunct
9undocumentedundocumentedADJDegree=Pos10 featureamod
10featurefeatureNOUNNumber=Sing2 jokeccomp
11""PUNCT_10 featurepunct
12,,PUNCT_21 callpunct
13andandCCONJ_21 callcc
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 firmdet
15firmfirmNOUNNumber=Sing21 callnsubj
16thatthatPRONPronType=Rel17 lostnsubj
17lostloseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 firmacl:relcl
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 fortunedet
19fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing17 lostobj
20maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin21 callaux
21callcallVERBVerbForm=Inf2 jokeconj
22ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 callobj
23""PUNCT_26 experiencepunct
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 experiencedet
25learninglearningNOUNNumber=Sing26 experiencecompound
26experienceexperienceNOUNNumber=Sing21 callxcomp
27""PUNCT_26 experiencepunct
28..PUNCT_2 jokepunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1joke speech: otherpresentProgrammersvn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2is a in a quotepresenta buga undocumented featuretree rules
3losepasta firma fortunevn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Eventuality
4callmaya firmfortunevn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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: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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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