Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 21
"Alternative facts" means falsehoods, things that are not true.
Who acts: Alternative facts, things · What happens: mean, not be · To what, where: falsehoods
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 (Alternative facts, things), 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 | _ | 3 facts | punct |
| 2 | Alternative | alternative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 facts | amod |
| 3 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 facts | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | falsehoods | falsehood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 means | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 things | punct |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 falsehoods | conj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 true | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 true | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 true | advmod |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 things | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | 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 | Alternative facts | falsehoods and things | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falsehood=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | things | true property | tree rules |
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:21.
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. 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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